Hi Vittorio,

> Having some experience with FreeBSD I'm puzzled by the fact that under 
> my newly installed NetBSD 2.0.2 as root csh doesn't complete the 
> filenames and, worst of all, doesn't show the history (I mean the up & 
> down arrows do not show the previous or successive command I issued).
> How can I set this straight?

I do not know FreeBSD, but is csh the default shell on this OS?
AFAIK the "standard" csh does not provide auto-completion/history.
I use bash as shell, and it provides history/auto-completion with tab key :
   pkg_add bash

Sylvain.