Issues with DOSKEY and ANSI.SYS
The MS-DOS enhancement ANSI.SYS was used to let programs move the cursor around on the screen. It can be made available for MS-DOS programs simply by adding the line device=ansi.sys to config.nt.
Conversely, DOSKEY—which has been enhanced significantly from the old DOS days—functions only in the 32-bit Windows console environment, and even if you attempt to load it in autoexec.nt, it does not function within the MS-DOS COMMAND.COM shell.
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