[TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic]

Chris Hanson cmhanson at eschatologist.net
Fri Jul 24 10:02:03 AEST 2020


On Jul 20, 2020, at 1:20 PM, Ed Carp <erc at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> Except that it had a rudimentary option completion feature that was
> sort of cool. When you typed "ls", for example, it would pop up a
> window that would show you all the options that you could select for
> that command. That was new and different. Too bad it didn't stick
> around.


You had to invoke Commando, it didn't pop up automatically as that'd be annoying as all heck.

Commando was also an integral part of Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, and extremely useful there for figuring  out the various commands and options.

  -- Chris



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