DOS Tip

It's handy to map a "network" drive to a local drive. Like "net use m: \\mymachine\c$". Then you can use M: as an alias to C:. So you can do:

m:
cd some\long\directory\that\an\application\created
c:
copy m:.\somefile

instead of

c:
copy some\long\directory\that\an\application\created\somefile

Maybe the latter seems better to you, but I like the former. Maybe because I feel more comfortable typing a long directory name as part of a cd command than as part of a copy command. Less chance of something going wrong, or just too many times getting burned by a putty terminal whose "backspace" I didn't configure correctly.