sftp and tab completion

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> writes:
>    I've got a simple question. Does sftp, the one that comes with
> FreeBSD 6.2's openssh, do tab completion? I've read that it could, but
> it isn't working here. I've got bash3 set up as my shell which seemed
> to matter. Also, when hitting a backspace in sftp i get a ^h and the
> command is invalidated as a result.

The last point is probably a terminal issue rather than shell.
Whether tab completion is supported at all is something I'd
never considered before, but I see some indications that it 
might require specific configuration at build time...