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- From: bjorn@ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: SET FILEC under OS/2 2.0???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.111308.15351@ludd.luth.se>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 11:13:08 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.043356.416@usl.edu> <1992Aug20.081508.28238@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In <1992Aug20.081508.28238@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
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- >Stephenson Daniel A (das9674@usl.edu) wrote:
- >> Hi there. Is there something akin to set filec for OS/2 2.0?
- >> THis is also know as 'file completion'. Those 255 char names
- >> are great, but wildcards don't always do the trick...
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- >4OS2 provides such functionality.
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- It should perhaps be mentioned that the filename completion function in 4os2
- is a little buggy with HPFS filenames (8.3 always seems to work). I've reported
- this tp JP Software, and they've been able to reproduce the behaviour I
- told them about, so I guess they're working on it. The problem is filenames
- containing characters not allowed under DOS.
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- >--
- >Tom J Parry.
- >Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
- _
- /Bjorn.
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