Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/22/10:06:44
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> How ANY DOS programmer could get by without 4DOS is totally BEYOND me!
> It does WAY too many cool things. The time you take to download it is
> given back to you by the time you save not having to type filenames
> anymore. I'm refering to the filename completion features of course.
You don't need 600k compressed package to get file completion. For an
example of such a tool check out CMDEDIT from SimTel.NET: it does file
completion and command-line editing in just 10k. I think most of the
size 4DOS takes at runtime is due to its advanced command-line syntax
(like >& and ||) and richer set of built-in commands, not to the
completion. So the real issue with 4DOS (IMHO) is: do you really need
all the additional features, beyond filename completion?
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