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ActiveState install sets up file associations for you, but when you (double) click a script to run it, generally a DOS window opens, it runs, then the DOS window closes before you get a chance to see the output (well, that's how my Win 98 machine seems to behave).

Stick to a shell. Hint - set up doskey to run when you open it, it makes things a little easier (but nowhere near bash though ;-) - create a shortcut to a 'DOS window'. Right click, choose 'Properties', enter 'DOSKEY' in the batch file line. Shazam, your up arrow then goes through the history of what you've typed.

cLive ;-)

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Re: (cLive ;-) - newbie, setting up file associations
by Rex(Wrecks) (Curate) on Jan 03, 2002 at 22:42 UTC
    I agree with "stick to a shell" but PLEASE don't promote any DOS shell for the original poster who is on Win2K.

    <rant>

    The CMD.EXE shell in NT4 and Win2k is much more powerful and useful than the (backwards compatable use only) command.exe (aka the DOS prompt)

    With cmd.exe you don't need the DOSKEY command...cmd is a real shell, command is a afterthought put into Win9X and then into the NT code base. It is bad bad bad and should be avoided at all costs.

    </rant>

    "Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!
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      Sorry,

      Never use it myself since I'm generally on Linux, and since they seem to be a newbie, I didn't want to suggest something too useful (with a steeper learning curve like Cygwin :-)

      cLive ;-)

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