>>>I don't have an edline command... I am using the command prompt in W2K, if that makes a difference. I said DOS prompt before out of habit.
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>>Really? It's still in XP. I thought it was in W2K, too.
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>WinXP SP2 - no edline :o( (or no path to it), Where it supposed to be?

It should be edlin. The old DOS standard editor.