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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!lunic!my!mother!bjorn
  2. From: bjorn@ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  4. Subject: Re: Aliasses for CMD.EXE? Please?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul30.173948.3476@ludd.luth.se>
  6. Date: 30 Jul 92 17:39:48 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul29.012627.19901@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Jul30.164916.12156@njitgw.njit.edu>
  8. Organization: Lule} H|gskolas datorf|rening ( Ludd )
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  11. In <1992Jul30.164916.12156@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
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  13. >Unfortunately, OS/2's CMD.EXE doesn't allow aliasses.  heck, the
  14. >DOSKEY program (that comes with DOS 5.0, and the OS/2 DOS emulator)
  15. >will allow aliasses, why can't CMD?
  16.  
  17. It's a pity indeed. Use .cmd files instead, or (prefereably, I think) use
  18. JP-Software's 4os2, where you have quite powerful alias capabilities.
  19.  
  20.    _
  21. /Bjorn,
  22.  
  23. who isn't connected to JP-software in any other way than that I received
  24. my registered 4os2 today. :)
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