Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/01/18:15:36
Remind me and the rest of the blind
speech synthesizer using community not to
buy any software from this company.
On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Ian
'DrDebug' Day
wrote:
> In article <Pine DOT LNX DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970131142550 DOT 140q-100000 AT capslock DOT com>,
> mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca writes
> >On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, MORRIS JP wrote:
> >
> >> > > 4.) The behaviour of TAB on the dos prompt is just a TAB. I (and many
> >others)
> >> > > would prefer the TAB key to do a file search like it does on UNIX.
> >> > > I was planning to recomile the command.com to do this, but obviously
> >I
> >> > > can't do that yet...
> >> > This may prove confusing to long time M$DOS users.
> >>
> >> Yes, but NDOS does this (apparently), freedos is/was going to, and TAB isn't
> >> used on the command prompt anyway. It would probably be optional, like the
> >> history list.
> >
> >I think that when the sources are released that COMMAND.COM will come
> >to resemble a strange (but awesome) mix of 4DOS and bash. Also, just
> >FYI, NDOS is just an *older* version of 4DOS which was licensed from
> >JPsoft to Symantec for the Norton Utilities.
>
> One of the first things I will do is Direct screen writes, regardless of
> portability. Who gives a s***, I want it fast on my PC... ;-)
>
> DrDebug
>
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