OT: why tar is strange

[Martijn Faassen]

Neil Hodgson <neilh at scintilla.org> wrote:
>> A command line with filename completion (and a history, though DOS has a
> mode
>> for that, and actually powerful commands) is very different from the DOS
>> command line.

>    On NT 4 and W2K you can have filename completion if you want:

>    Create the DWORD value CompletionChar in
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor and set it to 9. On
> W2K the setting was already there but set to 0.

Cool. :) That would help, but it doesn't bode well that this is an apparently
hidden away option..

Regards,

Martijn
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