DOSKEY not working on Windows 10 with clink

[ghost]

On a clean install of up-to-date Windows 10 x64 DOSKEY does not work inside clink attached prompt. I can run e.g. DOSKEY c=cls giving no errors but that mapping is not found after pressing c. Show stopper for me and I'm sure many others. Thanks.

[yongxiu]

+1, this used to work until I upgraded to Windows 10 Creators update.

[kyeongsoo]

Same here. My Win10 is "Version 1703 (OS Build 15063.296)".
I can still list all the macros already loaded through autorun by "doskey /macros", but none of them work.

[tx46]

This needs to be fixed urgently for clink to be usable at all. What can be done about it?

[Stanzilla]

@philiparvidsson you wait for @mridgers to come back or you fork.

[vvs]

This is affecting me as well, I've been struggling without my aliases for quite a while, and finally today spent an hour trying to figure out why they don't work anymore, and it turned out that clink on Windows 10 can't handle doskey.

Anyone has any idea what's wrong and how/where to fix it?

[ghost]

As @Stanzilla says this project looks dead so might as well drop clink

[vvs]

Just FYI, the PR #464 fixes this problem for me.

[DanyGee]

Here is what I did to enable DOSKEY aliases on WINDOWS 10 (Build 17134) with clink enabled.

1. Created doskey.cmd file with my aliases in it:

@echo off
doskey np="C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" $*
doskey ls=dir $*
doskey ns=nslookup $*
doskey ip=ipconfig $*
doskey hosts="C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
doskey aliases="C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" C:\Windows\System32\doskey.cmd
doskey youtube-dl=D: $T cd Dropbox\Windows\Programs\Portable\ $T echo Now launch: youtube-dl.exe YOURLINK --format best

2. Put the doskey.cmd file in C:\Windows\System32 folder - this is crucial ❗️ It tends not to work from other locations 🤔
3. Last step is to launch cmd with additional parameter, our doskey.cmd file that is...
   

This way every time you launch cmd, it will inject doskey.cmd file to it, even with clink enabled.
There is also an option to inject doskey.cmd through registry, but once clink is enabled, this trick is already used by clink itself, thus, cannot be used by doskey, and the /K parameter trick is the best workaround I've found so far.