From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Emacs M-! and graphics mode
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 20:06:06 -0400
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M. Schulter wrote:
> 
> From what you say, I'd guess that there are keyboard enhancers that could
> actually automate the keystrokes to suspend Emacs, enter the batch file
> name, and then exit back to Emacs. This indeed does sound like a cleaner
> and more reliable solution.

Old, reliable DOSKEY is a great command line editor; it comes with
MS-DOS 6.x and higher (as I recall).  In Win95, it can be found in the
Windows\Command directory.  Run it in your autoexec.bat to get easy
command line editing in plain DOS or in a DOS shell.

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