On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 11:06:18 -0400, Dev Teelucksingh wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
>> I have been seeing a number of comments being posted here about this
>> file completion feature, available with some programs and OS's.
>> I don't understand why anyone would want to have the additional overhead
>> required of such a feature if all it can do for you is to save you a
>> couple of keypresses now and then. Of course I realize that such a
>> feature would be somewhat nice for some people to have, but is it really
>> worth it in terms of the additional overhead for system resources that
>> could otherwise be devoted to something much more useful? I think not,
>> IMHO.
> What overhead? DOSED is not accessing the drive when you use the
> command prompt and it accesses the disk only when you press the Tab key.
> DOSED uses only 3K of memory (AFAIK,MS DOSKEY uses 5K) and can
> be loaded high and it could be uninstalled and could be
> temporarily disabled if need be.
Hello Dev Teelucksingh:
The "overhead" I was referring to is the cost incurred to your memory.
If it uses 3K of memory, that price isn't worth it to me. Some of my
applications are too tight on memory to allow for installing such an
unneeded frill. I can easily live without DOSKEY too. Thanks for
informing us that it can be easily uninstalled or temporarily disabled.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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