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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!grebyn!daily!mfraioli
- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: Unix Like File Name Completion...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.221044.11256@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <BxKGwH.Bpw@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <sal8.166.721515589@po.cwru.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:10:44 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <sal8.166.721515589@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
- >In article <BxKGwH.Bpw@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor) writes:
- >>From: umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor)
- >>Subject: Unix Like File Name Completion...
- >>Date: 11 Nov 92 19:31:28 GMT
- >>
- >>Does any one know if such a utility exists or if someone has plans to work
- >>on one [if its possible--at all] to allow file name completion as its done
- >>in Unix [ESC key]?
- >>
- >
- >Already done. Download 4OS/2 from the ftp site of your choice. It does that
- >and a whole lot more. There's also a dos version (called 4DOS) that will do
- >the same for your DOS sessions.
- >
- >They both default to the TAB key for this but I'm pretty sure you can use
- >any key you want.
- >
- I believe there is also an OS/2 port of Unix csh floating around,
- although it is not entirely complete or debugged. When this is done, I
- would assume it will have the filename completion feature in it, as this
- is really a feature of csh, not of Unix in general.
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
-