cpm5479@rigel.tamu.edu (Christopher Menzel) (03/01/91)
Date: 28 FEB 91 13:25:06 Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: cpm5479@rigel.tamu.edu Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: Academic Computing Services, Texas A&M University Keywords: NDOSEDIT 4dos ALIAS News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 >>When I have two or more DOS boxes running in WINDOWS 3.0 at the same time and I >>UP-Arrow NDOSEDIT, Windows gets very upset and terminates my DOS Box(s). >>Is there a Dos Command Line Editor that is Windows 3.0 DOS Box compatible? > >One easy solution is to get rid of NDOSEDIT *and* command.com, and >replace them with 4Dos. 4dos is a command.com replacedment, and >features, among lots of other things, a command line editor. > >(other things include filename completion, moving files, aliases, >powerful batch language etc etc.) > A freeware solution is the PC Magazine utility ALIAS.COM, available on most BBSs. It allows command line editing, aliases, and customized function key definitions. I run a batch file that loads the utility when I open a DOS window. I regularly open several such windows and have never encountered a problem. --Chris