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[Roger Gibson]

Thanks Ewan - using tab solves every thing.  Just could not find this 
anywhere.

Another thing - being in the middle of porting a lot of stuff from MS 
Windows, is there a handy tool for dealing with the mixed and 
inconsistent case structure used in MS file names, other than a lot of 
laborious mv typing?

Ewan Leith wrote:

> autocompletion should be turned on by default, it's tab in bash normally.
>
> you can add a set filec in .xinitrc and it should also work in the sun 
> (C-shell i think) way.
>
> easiest way to deal with the spaces while typing is add a \ in front 
> of the space, or you can put everything in quotes.
>
> Ewan
>
> Roger Gibson wrote:
>
>> It's probably a well known thing, but I'm at a loss. When I worked a 
>> lot with Unix on Suns you could set up auto-completion of directories 
>> and filenames by typing 'set filec' in a .xinitrc file.  Is there an 
>> equivalent for SuSE Linux?  Ideas much appreciated.  Will save me a 
>> lot of typing.  Also how do we cope with the spaces in file names 
>> allowed in MS Windows these days (it's what I get sent) other than 
>> with a wild *?
>>
>> Roger Gibson
>>
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