I agree with "stick to a shell" but PLEASE don't promote any DOS shell for the original poster who is on Win2K.

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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.

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