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From: rjvdboon AT hetnet DOT nl
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Build problems
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:21:23 +0200
Message-ID: <35c901c13f40$f909cb30$c36897c2@hetnet.nl>
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> Btw, the file-name completion in W2K's cmd.exe seems to be broken: you
> cannot customize the completion character, even though "cmd /?" says
> you should be able to.  No matter what I did, I couldn't get TAB to
> complete, only (the default) C-f.  Am I missing something, or is it a
> bug?  The Knowledge Base is silent about this (more accurately, it
> repeats the story told by "cmd /?").

cmd /? also tells about setting
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Provessor\CompletionChar
(and/or)
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Command Provessor\CompletionChar
to 0x9 for TAB completion. This works for me (W2K prof, US version)
(same as on NT4 BTW).

greets,
 Robert

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