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Automatically run commands when opening a DOS prompt in Windows 98?

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First post, by Kahenraz

Posted on 2026-09-07, 03:08

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Is there any autoexec.bat mechanism for DOS prompts in Windows 98?

Reply 1 of 4, by NeoG_

Posted on 2026-09-07, 05:36

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Can you give an example of what you what to do, maybe there is another way to do it

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Reply 2 of 4, by Disruptor

Posted on 2026-09-07, 05:45

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command /k batfile.bat

Reply 3 of 4, by Kahenraz

Posted on 2026-09-07, 06:04

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I want doskey.com to always run whenever I open a command prompt so that I can have tab completion and command history.

Reply 4 of 4, by jakethompson1

Posted on 2026-09-07, 06:13

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Kahenraz wrote on 2026-09-07, 06:04:

I want doskey.com to always run whenever I open a command prompt so that I can have tab completion and command history.

If you put doskey in your actual autoexec.bat, each opened DOS prompt will have doskey. This is the easiest way.

Another option is to customize dosprmpt.pif, so that it executes a batch file, as Disruptor said.

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