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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: alias on ibm-pc, anyone?
Message-ID: <27a1e7ee.568c@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 26 Jan 91 20:34:54 GMT
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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In an article mikek@col.hp.com (Mike Karin) wrote:
>Another nice program that was published in PC Magazine is ALIAS.  It is 
[]
>I am using Alias and it works great.

I have tried every alias and command-line editor that I have gotten my
hands on, and I am using alias from PCmag now.  But I am not happy with
its command line recall for several reasons:

1. If you re-execute a previous command, it puts another instance of that
command line in the stack.  It is inconvenient and has no useful purpose
to have multiple copies of the same command line in the stack.
2. The stack does not wrap around, so that when you get to the end, you 
have  to step all the way back the other way to get to an earlier command.
3. It always adds edited commands at the end of the stack, rather than inserting
them at the place where you are currently working.

I used to use ndosedit, which did these things the way I like, but I found that
it uses FCB's instead of file handles, and leaves them open forever after.
To me that is a sign of trouble to come, since it was obviously written in
the days of DOS 1.x.


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