Vista Command Line

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Apr 26 14:19:11 UTC 2007


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:04:36AM -0400, Chris Cunnington wrote:
>   
>> I found the command line. Hit the Start button, and type command into the
>> search window. Then the command prompt shows up. It understands ping and
>> netstat, but not ls, pwd, or vim. Oh, joy. So I have two questions, now that
>> I've encountered MS-DOS (which descended from Kildall's C/PM, and
>> Patterson's QDOS. And no, you didn't know that. I'm the first person to know
>> that. Ever.) 
>>
>> 1. Can anybody recommend a book on MS-DOS?
>>     
>
> Wouldn't be that helpful.  You are NOT in fact talking to DOS, but to
> cmd.exe (which has a lot more features and built in commands than
> command.com on DOS did).  It still sucks compared to a unix shell, but
> is also a lot better than what DOS had.
>
>   
>> 2. Can anybody give me a reason for reading such a book?
>>     
>
> You are having trouble sleeping?
>
> You could go download the powershell for vista if you want to try their
> new powerful command line instead.  The syntax seems a bit weird, but
> that is hardly surprising.
>
>   

Or better yet, install Cygwin.

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