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TAB Completion in DOS

June, 2006

This is for people who love doing stuff in the CLI (Command Line Interface).. Playing around with the . / TAB keys ;)

And what DOS misses is that wonderful command and directory completion feature available in linux shells. To enable TAB completion in DOS :

1. Start Registry Editor with start -\> run -\> regedit 
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  1. Navigate to

    `HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Command Processor`

  2. Find the CompletionChar property on the right and change its value from 0 to 9 :)

Open up a command prompt and Give it a try ;)

source : http://www.linuxhelp.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4344

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