[H-GEN] Useful not so obvious tips

[David de Groot]

Greg Black wrote:

>On 2004-10-25, ben.carlyle at invensys.com wrote:
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>>If I'm reading http://members.cox.net/bob.weeks/articles/hm50.htm 
>>correctly and it is to be trusted, doskey was introduced into dos 5.0 
>>(around the time of Windows 3.0).
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>It was around when DOS-3.1 was the latest and 8088 CPUs were
>cool ...
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I beg to differ, the original poster was indeed correct. Microsoft 
didn't ship DOSKEY until version 5.0 in 1991.

The only new commands in 3.1 were join and subst. 
This page:
    http://www.uv.tietgen.dk/staff/mlha/PC/Soft/DOS/com/

contains a reasonable listing of what was introduced when, and is far 
easier than unpacking the old DOS disks I have downstairs, installing a 
5 1/4" drive and checking for myself.

Dave