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Hello Kunal,

Sorry for abusing the issue tracker of Leetcode for talking about your blog entry.

You wrote a very detailed article here:

https://kunalspathak.github.io/2020-11-21-About-doskeys/

This has been IMMENSELY helpful. I am a linux guy actually, and a ruby guy
(hence the "nick" here), but I also use Win10 on a laptop. I struggled for
almost an hour before via doskey, so it was actually your blog and your examples
there that helped me.

I got strange errors ... I first used as "doskey.cmd" file but somehow this led to
problems. I also had "doskey " before every alias. So perhaps that was why.

I then copy/pasted your syntax, used the same name, then also removed
doskey.cmd (I think windows may treat such files differently; I did not know
that), and then it worked! \o/

The next steps I will do, now that I verified that it works, is to batch-generate
all my aliases via ruby (I have TONS of aliases, many cd-related aka navigating
the local filesystem). I already wrote the scripts for that on linux so now this
will be super-simple. So your blog entry helped me!

I haven't yet understood the set-env parts yet. If you ever find time to update
your blog entry, perhaps this part could be a bit longer - remember some come
from a Linux background. They may not be incompetent in general, but
still rather clueless when it comes to windows as-is (I have used windows when
I was younger but never anything advanced; now from a Linux background it
is different, I look first to see that I can get my workflow. I can work around
using other terminal emulators, but the reason I aimed for cmd.exe is because
it is available on other computer systems, so my idea is to generate a valid
file with aliases and just re-use these as-is for faster file navigation and such).

Anyway - just wanted to give a bit of feedback on https://kunalspathak.github.io/2020-11-21-About-doskeys/
without sending an email. (Somehow I find communication on github's issue tracker
a LOT simpler and easier than with email ... I keep on lagging behind replying to
emails, whereas via github trackers this is so much more convenient - so apologies
for misusing the tracker here.)

I haven't understood all examples yet, but now that I have aliases working, I can
more easily research further at a later time. Thanks!