ntpq quirk

Achim Gratz Stromeko at nexgo.de
Sat Nov 26 13:35:41 UTC 2016


Eric S. Raymond writes:
> 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?

I've had to change a few command lines in hitory and one script.  If
this was something I had inherited, I'd have had a much harder time to
find out why it suddenly stopped working.


Regards,
Achim.
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