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  • Running DOS 7 (W98se) - how to set insert mode ?

    From R.Wieser@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 30 10:42:30 2021
    Hello all,

    I'm currently booting a machine which has DOS 7 (from Win98se) as its OS,
    and get a commandline with the "insert" mode defaulting to OFF. I would
    like to have it defaulting to ON (matching my other 'puters).

    I've looked it the BIOS settings for it, but its not there. I've DDGed for
    a method to tell DOS 7 to do so, but could not find anything in that
    direction. :-\

    tl;dr: Does anyone here know how to tell DOS 7 to set the default "insert"
    mode to ON on its commandline ?

    Regards,
    Rudy Wieser

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  • From R.Wieser@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 30 12:56:41 2021
    tl;dr: Does anyone here know how to tell DOS 7 to set the default "insert" mode to ON on its commandline ?

    Scratch the question. I was looking (searching) at the wrong spot.

    Somewhere during my (further) searches I realized that I'm using "doskey"
    [1] (to retrieve previously use commandlines), and that one almost
    immediatily showed me how to do it. :-)

    [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/doskey

    Regards,
    Rudy Wieser

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