Is it possible by any means to rename the internal commands of DOS? Firstly, I am doing this to learn a bit about the internals and possibilities of DOS. So far I have changed the internal command CLS to XLX (on Windows XP). But the command name XLX isn't executing. I am attaching 2 screenshots for the reference. Above everything else, this whole activity is just my curiosity.
That shell you're running isn't DOS and it isn't command.com
; as the window title indicates, it's cmd.exe
which is a different program entirely. Your changes might actually work if you were running the DOS command interpreter — which might or might not be as easy as just running command
from the cmd shell.