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Abbreviation expanders for DOS boxes under Win9x?
rjbull:
Related to my plea for a Win98 holdout site...
I like abbreviation expanders like Superkeys, Robotype, Yadabyte Subtext, PowerPro, etc. At work I use AHK. But, my home laptop is Win98SE, and I still use certain DOS programs. I have not yet found an abbreviation expander that works in DOS boxes under Win98. Some of them don't even work in DOS boxes under Win2000.
Is this actually possible in Win98?
TIA...
app103:
I have never heard of any. There might be some for real DOS that I don't know about but I don't think they would work unless you rebooted into DOS, and not in a console window within Win98.
Jibz:
You could try 4DOS, which was a very nice commercial command processor which became freeware some years ago (bottom of http://www.jpsoft.com/download.htm ).
In Win2K/XP there is a built in completion feature, but you have to enable it through the registry .. check for instance http://www.sgr.nada.kth.se/win/win2k/docs/completion.html.en
Darwin:
ActiveWords runs under Win98SE but it costs $49.95... it'll correct spelling and complete abbreviations in DOS windows.
Jibz:
Ah, looks like I totally misunderstood the topic, sorry about that :-[.
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