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From: "John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
To: <news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cygwin and long filenames with spaces
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 18:57:20 +0100
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> From: news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com
> Sent: Friday, 9 August 2002 4:43 pm
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: cygwin and long filenames with spaces
> Eye AT morgul ~
> $ cd /cygdr<tab>
> --
> doesn't do what one might expect (i.e. it does not seem to try 
> to complete the line).

Tab completion only works with real directories.
/cygdrive, /proc are virtual.  If you want tab completion
create them :)

J.

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