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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 17:18:56 +0100
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> > 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