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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:59:07 +0000
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From: "Ian 'DrDebug' Day" <Ian AT darkblak DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist
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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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