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  3. November 2004

RE: "Bad" file

Joel Cochran wrote:
> Not much help, but DOS took a cue from Unix some time ago and
> incorporated a "tab" path completion feature.  Try typing in just a
> couple letters of a directory on a cd command and hit the tab key - the
> directory name should be filled in for you.  You continue this trick
> until you are where you want to be.
>
> For instance:
>
> c:\IBMTOOLS\APPS\ACCESS\ICONS
>
> can be found by typing:
>
> cd c:\IB<tab>\<tab>\<tab>\<tab>

How about from a command window in W2K?  All that happens is with the tab
key is that it advances the cursor a few spaces.

Maybe I'll try it on Win98 at home.

db

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