ITworld.com – Ok, well maybe the subject line of this column is stretching it just a wee bit. There’s no way that you can emulate more than a small fraction of Unix power at the DOS Command Prompt.

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One of the other problems that I ran into when trying to make my DOS prompt behave more like my Unix systems was how to invoke my carefully crafted macros every time I opened a new DOS command window.