DOS

One of the other problems that I ran into when trying to make my DOS prompt behave more like my Unix systems was how to invoke my carefully crafted macros every time I opened a new DOS command window. When I put the commands to change my prompt and invoke my macros in a batch file and then ensured that this batch file was on my search path, I could reduce the effort that I had to make to running the batch file every time I opened a command prompt. I've since learned that it is possible to have my batch file invoked automatically whenever I open a DOS window (i.e., run cmd.exe). So, in this week's column, we're going to examine how this can be done.