Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 16:52:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Joseph Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Filename completion
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On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Joseph Morris wrote:

> To any of you who are thinking of adding filename completion,
> this may be of some help:
> 
> The command prompt is stored deep in the system, in IBMBIOS.
> The file is CMDPROMPT.A86.
> 
> Because it is pure assembler, I don't think I have the skill to fix it
> myself.
> 
> I was originally intending to 'borrow' the routine from the freedos
> command.com file.  That is in C and makes heavy use of the library
> functions.
> 
> I don't believe there is any string handling code available in
> ibmbios.  If there is, I'll try again sometime. 

I've implemented filename completion with findfirst/findnext and
a linked list.  This is a C callable library function though.
Doing it in asm wouldn't be too difficult I guess, but I think it
would be better to just link in the C lib.
 

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