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odeSolver Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 11 Jul 2010 Posts: 84 Location: NJ, USA
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:07 pm Post subject: What are your MS-DOS shortcuts? |
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As an old DOS user, I find it easier to remember and issue commands like md instead of whatever the Linux equivalent is. I have created a few lines in my .bash_profile file to make Gentoo a little "DOS user friendly". What interesting MS-DOS shortcuts have you created?
Here are the few I have from my .bash_profile:
Code: | alias cd..='cd ..' # DOS didn't always require spaces
alias md='mkdir'
alias trsh='mv --target-directory=$HOME/.Trash'
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10589 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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Heh. I created Unix shortcuts for my MS-DOS. But then I used Unix System V.3 before DOS existed.
- John _________________ I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters. |
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odeSolver Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 11 Jul 2010 Posts: 84 Location: NJ, USA
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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John R. Graham wrote: | Heh. I created Unix shortcuts for my MS-DOS. But then I used Unix System V.3 before DOS existed.
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I figured there'd be a few like you. But I wonder what on earth makes you go from Unix/Linux to DOS? Why would you go backwards? _________________ Depserately needs help learning Gentoo Linux in order to use a 32-node cluster for my master's thesis in mathematics. |
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10589 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Sometime you have to follow the money.
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Gusar Advocate
Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 2665 Location: Slovenia
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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I have two: Code: | alias cd..='cd ..'
alias cls='clear' |
The other way around, sometimes I do 'ls' in dosbox, then go "huh?? oh, right..." |
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Drasica Apprentice
Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 181
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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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Whenever I use DOS I try and run 'ls' without fail.... |
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leifbk Guru
Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 415 Location: Bærum, Norway
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Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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Drasica wrote: | Whenever I use DOS I try and run 'ls' without fail.... |
I worked with System V.4 in the Nineties. I haven't been at a DOS prompt for about ten years, but I do remember that in order to do anything useful on a new Windows installation, I had to download unxutils. Then I needed ActiveState Perl, and then a decent editor, and then a lot of other things... until finally I realised that it would be far easier to just install Linux and get a working environment in one go. _________________ Grumpy old man |
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_______0 Guru
Joined: 15 Oct 2012 Posts: 521
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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What are your MS-DOS shortcuts?
/me between 'oh-m-y-g-o-d', 'w-t-f' and 'please... no, no, no' |
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wuzzerd Guru
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 467 Location: New Mexico
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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alt-ctrl-del -- aargh in gentoo I have to hit it twice... |
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djdunn l33t
Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 810
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Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 1:09 am Post subject: |
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dos makes me upset... _________________ “Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good and just and beautiful.”
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