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Internal HELP command takes precedence

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First post, by MiniMax

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The internal HELP command takes precedence over external programs/batch-files.

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Is this by design, or an oversight?

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Reply 1 of 3, by Qbix

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well internal commands take precendence over external commands. That is design.
However I don't know if the help in msdos 6.x was an internal or an external command.
So making help an internal command while it might have been an external command can be an oversight.

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Reply 2 of 3, by MiniMax

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I don't have real MS-DOS available to test, but in WinXP/cmd a BAT-file named HELP.BAT takes precedence.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Kippesoep

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Help was an external command in real DOS. There was a HELP.COM (present on my original DOS 6.22 disk 2).

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