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vidarh on June 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell

> Windows could do a lot better than curses by providing easy means to pop MFC dialogs from the shell to prompt the user.

This was common on the Amiga. E.g. tab completion in the shell can bring up a pre-filtered file requester.

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