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From: ggp AT informix DOT com (Guy Gascoigne - Piggford)
Subject: Re: CMD, case-insensitive file-name completion
30 May 1997 19:00:53 -0700 :
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At 10:22 PM 5/29/97 +0100, Don Sharp wrote:
>Scott Mintz wrote:
>> 
>>      That's true.  The data value below is the <TAB> character.  You could
>>      theoretically change it to something else.
>> 
>>      The actual key is:
>>      HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor
>> 
>>      Note the space between Command and Processor is necessary.
>> 
>
>I am running NT 3.51 SP5 and I haven't got any completion going after
>making the entry in my registry. What should I have to do apart from
>typing TAB during command line entry? Should it be a binary rather than
>string value?
>
>Cheers
>
>Don Sharp
>
>P.S. I have logged off and logged back in.

This worked for me imediately under NT 4.0 so my guess is that it isn't
supported under 3.51 :-(  I don't have that system here to check.

Guy

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