Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!voder!dtg.nsc.com!waggoner From: waggoner@dtg.nsc.com (Mark Waggoner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: IMPROVED FILENAME COMPLETION IN SKSH Message-ID: <387@icebox.nsc.com> Date: 22 Feb 90 17:31:37 GMT References: Reply-To: waggoner@icebox.UUCP (Mark Waggoner) Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 31 In article rfrost@cs.ua.oz.au (Richard Frost) writes: > I have posted this to sys.amiga but have yet to hear a reply, >so I'll try the Amiga techos now.! You missed. You set the distribution to comp.sys.amiga.tech, not the newsgroup. > I have been looking for an Amiga shell with filename completion >for quite some time now and was pleased to see it in Steve Koren's shell. >I think this feature works very well in the RAM DISK and in a HARD DISK >but for a FLOPPY DISK?, well lets say I could grow old waiting for the >filename completion to finish!. > >MY SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM: >============================ >... > Have a CACHE that stores all the known filenames (and disk names) FComp, which comes with William Hawes' WShell product does this. You'll have to buy it, but then that's why those Amiga dealers are in business. FComp seems to be quite flexible, though I haven't had a chance to really learn all about it. Among other things, It can search your command path to complete the first thing on the command line and fill in a command template when you use it to complete particular commands. WShell is well worth the money. -- Mark Waggoner Santa Clara, CA (408) 721-6306 waggoner@dtg.nsc.com Unofficially representing National Semiconductor Local Area Networks Group Officially misrepresenting myself.