| message | Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 11:15 PM
| With Win 98 I used to have a bunch of handy, simple DOS macros, such
| as "py" for pinging
www.yahoo.com. I think I can recreate them in
| Win XP, but how do I make them be there available for use when I
| call the command prompt? <SNIP>
| message | Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:03 AM
| OK, I entered "doskey py=ping yahoo.com" (no quotes) in a DOS
| window, then typed "py". It worked. Same for "doskey ty=tracert
| yahoo.com". But they don't stick: they don't work if I close the DOS
| window and open it again. <SNIP> What I get is "'py' is not
| recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or
| batch file."
In you next command session try typing the following command before
recalling your "py" macro:
doskey /macrofile=py
And if that does not help I suggest that you post in the following
Microsoft Newsgroup:
microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin
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