File completion in BSD4.3-derived CSH
Marcus Leech
mleech at bcarh342.bnr.ca
Wed May 9 08:21:08 AEST 1990
I didn't want to clutter up comp.unix.wizards with this one.
Can someone explain to me the mechanism used by the BSD4.3 CSH
to implement file completion, given that, as far as I can tell,
it runs the TTY in COOKED mode? I have Apollos and HP9000/3xx
with the BSD4.3 CSH. Both systems have file completion, but I
can't figure out HOW the CSH gets to see the ESC char given that
it runs the TTY in COOKED mode. Someone care to enlighthen me?
I looked for an "alternate" line-discipline, but CSh uses the default
regular line-discipline. On the HP, there's no V7ish "alternate
line-terminator character" that it could be setting to ESC. I'm
quite puzzled.
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