On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 at 22:57:32, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>Tony Firshman wrote:
>>>In DOS one usually uses "c:\program files". While Tony's version might
>>>actually work there (DOS command line parsing has ceased to amaze me a
>>>long time ago), it looks damn weird.
>> Certainly does. That is precisely what the TAB complete does under XP
>> DOS emulation.
>
>You actually mean it produces
>
>c:\"program files"
>
>?
>
>Sorry, but that's hard to believe. Nonetheless I just checked NT4 SP6,
>2000 SP4 and XP SP2. None of them showed this behaviour.
... and mine doesn't I find!
I was thinking of Linux, where it is perfectly valid.
I guess I assumed that the XP DOS emulation, which has copied the Linux
(Unix) TAB complete, used the same format.
I do most of my command line stuff under Linux, and rarely delve into
DOS nowadays.
sorry,
Tony
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