Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/15/14:39:50
> > Hey! another maybe wish for OpenDOS, instead of regular line-wrapping,
> > smart breaking at either '/' or '\'. Too much?
>
> \ would be interpreted as a directory path, so if you said:
>
> COPY FILE1.txt \
>
> It would go to the next line and wait for you to type in more
> instead of copying the file to the root dir.
>
> / would be interpreted as a switch character, so if you said:
>
> COPY FILE.TXT .. /
>
> It would complain that an invalid switch was present.
>
> I believe that COMMAND.COM / 4DOS allready allow you to do what
> you are suggesting by pressing a control character at the end of
> a line. In plain ole COMMAND.COM without DOSKEY, I think that it
> is the ESC character although it has been 5 or 6 years since I
> remember.
No, ESC means: "screw this, let's start all over", in other words, then DOS
ignores all you have typed before and starts with a clean prompt (without
the prompt that is).
Yeep
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