File completion in csh

[John Biggs]

tml at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Timothy Liddelow) writes:

>Why is it that on my distributed SPARC system that when file completion in
>csh is set, it doesn't work properly ?  If escape is pressed on the
>command line, the command is simply not recognised.  This only happens on
>the client machine, not the server.  As the file completion must obviously
>read the current directory, could that be the problem that my machine has
>to read the remote disk ?

I too have found that filec does not work in a cmdtool (which uses the
sun-cmd termcap entry).  It appears that whilst pressing ESC does actually
perform the file completion it also has a similar effect to pressing ^U as
the command line is nullified but not erased from the screen.  This can be
proved by having a look at the command history which shows now record of
the command being typed.  What I have discovered is that rlogging into
your own machine does in fact cure the problem and filec works perfectly,
although I am still using the same sun-cmd termcap entry. So what
difference does it make rlogging into your own machine? 

--John Biggs (jbiggs at armltd.uucp)