Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:48:30 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
cc: Daniel P Hudson <afn03257 AT freenet3 DOT afn DOT org>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: About redirection...
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> How ANY DOS programmer could get by without 4DOS is totally BEYOND me!
> It does WAY too many cool things.  The time you take to download it is
> given back to you by the time you save not having to type filenames
> anymore.  I'm refering to the filename completion features of course.

You don't need 600k compressed package to get file completion.  For an 
example of such a tool check out CMDEDIT from SimTel.NET: it does file 
completion and command-line editing in just 10k.  I think most of the 
size 4DOS takes at runtime is due to its advanced command-line syntax 
(like >& and ||) and richer set of built-in commands, not to the 
completion.  So the real issue with 4DOS (IMHO) is: do you really need 
all the additional features, beyond filename completion?