Filename completion in shelltools and cmdtools

Rui-Tao Dong rdong at boole.msri.org
Wed Jan 23 15:25:43 AEST 1991


In article Ken Nelson writes:

>Symptoms:
>
>The user hits escape, the appropriate filename completions are seen, but
>appear to have no effect.

This is a bug for cmdtool under both SunView and OpenWin. A simple trick
to get around it is to run "rsh hostname" from that window. You might want
to do the following after "rsh" to get suntools working

	% setenv WINDOW_PARENT '/dev/win0' 
	% setenv WMGR_ENV_PLACEHOLDER '/dev/win1'

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