Re: Command-line trivia -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Command-line trivia
From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:35:50 -0500
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It's wonderful. Used it for years now. But I bet I had my original AS/400 for 3 years before i found it out.

SJL wrote:

I'm not sure where this is documented in the manuals, but none out of five of my co-workers knew about it until I showed it to them. On a command line, type the first few letters of any command, followed by an asterisk.

For example, type WRK*, or WRKOBJ*, or DSPOBJ*, or RUN* and see what happens. Also see the SLTCMD command...

- sjl

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