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Number   :  4598
Date     :  2003-05-15
Author   :  Melissa Evans
Subject  :  Re: is DOSKEY disabled by XXCOPY on XP machines?
Size(KB) :  1


Kan, A colleague and I just learned that doskey is built into 
cmd.exe. We disabled doskey in the batch file on the pif command 
line, and so far so good. We will continue to test this.

m

--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Kan Yabumoto  wrote:
> On our XP, we have seen similar behavior on some of our
> DOS Boxes. Not exactly with XXOCPY though. It was
> when we ran Borland C++ compiler (for the production of
> XXCOPY16), the DOS Box's operation environment was quite
> odd afterward (including the DOSKEY disappearance).
> Despite our (not very intense) efforts, we could not figure
> out what was causing it. I vaguely remember that when
> we ran a "SET" command, the environment variables were
> quite different from what we expected. It was erratic
> and could not make any consistent observation as to
> exactly what set of conditions made that happen.
> It seemed something to do with how the DOS Box was opened.
> It could be the setting of the DOS Box environment
> (I might try the various settings in the property sheet).
> Lately, we have not observed it for some time.



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