Autocomplete command

Brad In Unix you can 'autocomplete' a command using tab. I bloody wish I could do that in a Windows DOS shell... what?? I can??

start regedit From Start => Run or in a command prompt, enter 'regedit';

navigate to Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/Command Process

set completion characters Change CompletionChar and PathCompletionChar keys to 0x09 (TAB)

test Open a new command prompt. It should start on your system disk. Enter:

cd prog[TAB]

By using the TAB completion character, the command prompt 'completes' the name and should show:

cd "Program Files"

If more than one file/path exists starting with 'prog', pressing TAB repeatedly cycles through all matches.

im on a wik2k machine atm and well i followed the instructions and opened a new terminal .. and when i 'tabbed' i tabbed no completion at all..just a simple tab -KunDa

You could install cygwin and use bash on windows] --mutante

I have Cygwin installed, but this wiki page should state for what windows version the embedded autocomplete function applies to, yes? -KunDa

OKI this was intended for win NT4, but it did work on 2k as well... you can also download TweekUI 2k, and it has a option in there to set this too DrOwl