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- From: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber)
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- Subject: Re: 3 questions
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.013355.28536@wheaton.wheaton.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 01:33:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.041238.12079@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
- >In article <18ot9rINN67t@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
- >>Question 1:
- >>-----------
- >> How do I determine if the user is at the command line? I've been thinking
- >> about writing a TSR to intercept keypresses at the DOS command line and
- >> expand TABs to full filenames (like tcsh does).
- >
- >A very long shot, which probably won't produce anything, but just in
- >case. If you know assembler (I don't) take a look at the list of
- >the PC-Magazine utilities and see if there is any history utility in
- >there. The pcmag utilities come with sources. The file that lists
- >the contents of them all is garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pcmag/0pcmag.dir (or
- >something near). But I am a little pessimistic of this producing
- >anything.
- >
- >..................................................................
- >Prof. Timo Salmi
-
- In fact there is at least one such utility in pcmag. Not
- very long ago, maximum about 2 years ago, i think. I don't
- remember the name, but it could have been "command recall"
- or something similar.
-
- Glauber
-
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