ntpq quirk

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Nov 26 12:03:50 UTC 2016


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> The old ntpq used to accept any unique prefix of a command.  The new version 
> doesn't.

I was going to say tab completion is the closest we can come, then I thought
of a kludgy way to fix this by hacking the precmd method.  It might not be
portable to Python 3, though.  How important do you think this is?
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