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Date: | Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:43:26 PST |
From: | Steven Levine <steve53@earthlink.net > |
Reply-To: | scoug-help@scoug.com |
To: | scoug-help@scoug.com |
Subject: | SCOUG-Help: Re: CMD |
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In <7109E8D1CA81D21193D200805FFE89131031CB@mail.maintech1.com>, on
>believe F8 will display the entire command history and allow you to
FWIW, it's PgUp for command history and Ctrl-PgUp for directory history.
>select the one you want.
In addition, you can select to run the command for pull it to the command
There's also command argument completion. Press Tab to get the rest of a
>prompt, as a command to change to that directory, if the directory name
This will not occur. The entry must be terminated with a \ for it to
>type of
This is true for the older shells. I wonder if bash, which is newer,
>Any other neat features of this programs come to mind immediately? I
The command language is pretty much as capable as REXX. Because of it's
Steven
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at 08:43 AM, "Wirtz, Paul"
line for editing. Rather handy.
filename argument.
>can't be confused with any internal or external command
>or program. (Where the default command files you mention above only do
>this for the 'volume' disk partition.)
considered for automatic directory change. Every now and then I forget
:).
>CALL statement' ( 'CD' :-) ) to 'execute' them.
supports these semantics?
DOS heritage and compatibility, the syntax can be clunky at times. It
also supports a variant of the UNIX !# paradigm, EXTPROC. I use this to
embed Perl in 4OS2 .CMD scripts. It also supports executable extensions,
I can run mystuff.pl or yourstuff.awk from the command line.
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