In earlier versions of Windows, the way we opened a command window — a DOS window — was by using Start, Run, Command and pressing the Enter key. If we did it a lot, we even created a shortcut to the file c:\windows\command.com But, in the early versions of Windows XP, Microsoft removed the COMMAND [...]
DOS Command Shell Replacement
Subscriber and regular correspondent Ivan Tadej wrote recently to say: Hello Terry, this is a bit delayed response to your last newsletter-issue [October 15th - Terry]… You see, after re-reading it a few days ago (re-reading the last issue of your newsletter, in particular the “/*5. COMMAND vs CMD*/” entry on the http://www.terryscomputertips.com/archives/news_20061015_3.php page), I [...]
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