Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/16/09:24:23
In article <Pine DOT LNX DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970215002449 DOT 900K-100000 AT capslock DOT com>,
mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca writes
>> 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.
Yeah, that's a bad idea. A much better solution would be to allow the
4DOS style of mutliple line entry/edit with any hassle. The entry line
simply wraps around the screen and you can edit any portion of said
line.
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