[H-GEN] Useful not so obvious tips

[Greg Black]

On 2004-10-25, David de Groot wrote:
> Greg Black wrote:
>> On 2004-10-25, ben.carlyle at invensys.com wrote:
>> 
>>> 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).
>> 
>> It was around when DOS-3.1 was the latest and 8088 CPUs were
>> cool ...
>
> I beg to differ, the original poster was indeed correct. Microsoft 
> didn't ship DOSKEY until version 5.0 in 1991.

I didn't say Ben was wrong; I said doskey was around back when
3.1 was the latest version of DOS.  Trust me, it was.  I used
it.  It wasn't part of DOS, but it was in wide use.

Cheers, Greg