File Completion on Windows

Product Family: Any
Target CPU: Any
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Host: PC/Windows

Most users of UNIX rely on some shell which offers various forms of command or file completion. This allows for very fast and efficient typing. File completion can be enabled in Windows NT as follows:

• Open a DOS box
At the prompt, execute the Registry Editor (regedit)
• In the Registry Editor, Select:
        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor
• Set CompletionChar to 9
• Set EnableExtensions to 1
• Exit from regedit
• Close the Registry Editor, and the DOS box

Now, when a DOS box is opened, pressing the TAB key while typing a command will cycle through those files which match what has been typed on the command line.