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re: Loading Doskey in other dos boxes Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:03 am Posted by Paul D (827 messages posted) Is that a question? Paul D On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 9:57 am, Carl Kenner wrote: >I start a DOS box by typing "command" into the run menu. >If you do this, changing dosprmpt.pif will have no effect. >You need to change command.pif instead. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Loading Doskey in other dos boxes Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:28 am Posted by amaralliya e. thenardier (3194 messages posted) if you load doskey with autoexec.bat then you don't even have to edit the .pif [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Loading Doskey in other dos boxes Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:36 am Posted by Paul D (827 messages posted) FWIW, I have two DOS shortcuts in my Start Menu. One runs full-screen, and takes me directly to an old DOS file manager (l.com). The other runs in a window. Both load Doskey via a called batch file. Works for me. I really don't see the point in using Start/Run for anything you use regularly, for instance sfc & regedit, for which I also have shortcuts. Paul D On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:03 am, Paul D wrote: >Is that a question? > >color=#3366FF>Paul D > > >On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 9:57 am, Carl Kenner wrote: >I start a DOS box by typing "command" into the run menu. >If you do this, changing dosprmpt.pif will have no effect. >You need to change command.pif instead. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Loading Doskey in other dos boxes Wednesday, November 6, 2002 at 7:41 am Posted by GriffJon (1 messages posted) The advantage of start-run-"command" is the keyboard shortcut part of it -- Windows key (or CTRL+Esc), "R", then type the command, which is also remembered by windows, so usually 3 keystrokes, which is a lot faster in most cases than mousing it, or even using a shortcut. Me, I just assigned a hotkey to my dosprompt, but hey. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Loading Doskey in other dos boxes Friday, May 9, 2003 at 10:47 pm Posted by GhantCD (2 messages posted) I can't run DOS env via my puter despite it was good sometime ago. My OS is Win 98. I guess there is(are) ways to fix this. Error msg was 'can't find 'command.pif'. Any1 plse help me..TQ. On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:28 am, amaralliya e. thenardier wrote: >if you load doskey with autoexec.bat then you don't even have to edit the .pif [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Loading Doskey in other dos boxes Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 9:48 pm Posted by Bart (1 messages posted) Man that scrolling name really is annoying... On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:03 am, Paul D wrote: >Is that a question? > >color=#3366FF>Paul D > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum