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- From: jc70@westend.VI.CMU.EDU (Joo C. Chung)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: SET FILEC under OS/2 2.0???
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- Date: 20 Aug 92 14:44:37 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.142903.16489@usl.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug20.142903.16489@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel
- A) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug20.081508.28238@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- > >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...
- > >
- > >4OS2 provides such functionality.
- >
- > Ah, I've heard of this '4OS2'. In brief, what else does it do better than
- the
- > supplied shell?
- > -Thanks-
- > >Tom J Parry.
- > >Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
- >
- >
- > --
- > Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
- > "Is it that Blake has a genius for leadership, or merely that *you* have a
- > genius for being led?" -Avon, from Blakes 7
-
- 4OS2 also provides:
- 1) filename completion
- 2) description of files
- 3) history window
- 4) built in list command
- 5) ability to set colors
- 6) a host of new variables and batch functions
- 7) history command completion
- etc......
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- Joo
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