Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:47:34 +0300
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> From: rjvdboon AT hetnet DOT nl
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:21:23 +0200
> 
> > 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).

The problem was that I was invoking CMD as "cmd /f:on".  What "cmd /?"
fails to tell is that, when CMD sees /f:on, it doesn't even look into
the registry's setting of CompletionChar, and instead uses the default
C-f and C-d.