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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT ausreg.com>]

Hi Folks,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:11:14 GMT
Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> > 
> > DOS can use aliases.  At its simplest, write a batch file, e.g.
> > 
> > alias1.bat
> > ------------
> > realname.ext %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6
> > 
> > which will do the job and allows (in this case 6) commandline parameters.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Erm - that's not an alias, that's a script (although a very simple one).

   Yes it is.  :)

   In my view that is not too much different from putting "alias 
d='/usr/bin/links .' " into profile.

> Dos (at least 6.22+) has doskey, which does do aliases:
 
     Yes it does.  It allows one to write aliases (little scripts).    :)

Regards,
         Ron

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