[H-GEN] Useful not so obvious tips

[Byron Ellacott]

ben.carlyle at invensys.com wrote:
> To be fair, this functionality has been around since I was a boy. As I 
> recall, tab completion is fairly new but command history and some other 
> editing nicities have been available for some time. In older versions you 
> did need to type
> $ doskey
> first to turn it on. Presumably Windows XP now runs this program by 
> default.

Or you could use a different shell to COMMAND.COM or its later 
equivalents, such as the trusty ol' 4dos, which did a number of the 
things bash does.  I believe it's still in existence somewhere, but 
since my Windows PC is just a glorified games console, I haven't chased 
it down. :)

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bje