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From: Bartholomew_Siemens@mindlink.UUCP (Bartholomew Siemens)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Filename Completion for PC's
Message-ID: <4794@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 10:44:20 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> In article <16648@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cs178waa@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Vegetable Man)
> writes:
> 
> Has anybody written a program to emulate the UNIX file completion
> utility for DOS?  I imagine it would have to be a TSR, but I
> suppose that's not the only solution.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt


Once again the definitive answer is *4dos*. Along with all of the other great
features that this 99.99% MS-DOS (and PC-DOS) compatible command processor
does...it does filename completion.

Note -- the filename completion is not an exact emulation of UNIX. In UNIX, if
there are similiar files in the path, the filename will be completed as far as
the names are the same. The user then is forced to remember what the rest of
the filename is. In 4dos, the computer guesses with the first complete filename
in its path. If the filename is not correct, then one simply has to key in
[F9], and 4dos will guess again. I could go on, but I think you should discover
4dos for yourself.

-- bart (not simpson)

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