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1. SLOW. There's a perceptible delay between when I type and when characters appear on the screen.
2. No repeat command. If I hold the right arrow, nothing happens.
How can I fix these things? Or is that the way it normally is?
Also, how do I set the path variable?
Sounds like you're running command.com and not cmd.exe (the NT CLI). Go start->run (or windows key + R) and run 'cmd'.
The path is in an environment variable called PATH. You can change it in one single, current session by typing:
SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\your\extra\path
or you can set it globally by going to the control panel -> system -> advanced tab -> environment variables. The bottom section of that tab contains system variables, of which PATH is one. You can edit it there.
K, thanks, that took care of it.