How to use MS DOS-defined aliases in Powershell

Question

I have some aliases that are defined in MS Dos style, how can I invoke those from Powershell? When I type "alias" from Powershell prompt, I can see my aliases defined there but when I try to call them by just typing their names, Powershell complains with a message like "The term 'whatever' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet...".

Answer 1

From Getting doskey macros to work in PowerShell:

PS> doskey /exename=powershell.exe cd\home=pushd $env:USERPROFILE\$*

and

PS> doskey /exename=powershell.exe /MACROFILE=mymacros.txt

See that page for more information.