What was that cool thing you just did?

What was that cool thing you just did? - Addendum: Clearing the command history

David Kline — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:59:00 GMT

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ShadowChaser — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:28:00 GMT

Wow, I had no clue that F7 did that until now, *lol*. I always just used the arrow keys to scroll through using DosKey ;-)

re: What was that cool thing you just did?

David Kline — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:28:00 GMT

Trevor,

I use the up/down keys as well. Another plus to using F7 is you can get the command ID and feed it to F9 for another nice shortcut. :)

--DK

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Trevor — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:40:00 GMT

I generally use F3 and up/down

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patag — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:25:00 GMT

I too am a huge doskey fan! Back when you had to tweak autoexec.bat and config.sys, I would make sure doskey was loaded on bootup. I hated it when I would open up a command prompt and attempt to use doskey, but it wasn't in memory.

I still use it all the time today. I'm more of a up arror / down arror fan. Shows how awesome and simple the program was / is.

re: What was that cool thing you just did?

Don Newman — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:24:00 GMT

For years I have been using F5 to go back through my command list which takes them back out of the list if you go to prior one. F7 will be my new go-to key now! You may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks but you can still teach an old dog old tricks.

And now to impress the geeks in my circle even more I can tell them who is responsible for this god-send when I pass it on.