Glad to be of help! Another happy customer! Further to this, the command. It is unlikely to be of use to most people, and is only available on bit editions of Windows. That's interesting Harry, because I am able to access it on my 64 bit windows 10 machine. Not since discovering I could access command. Perhaps I should do that. Show 1 more comment. Command Prompt is simply a shortcut to cmd. Siyual Andy Guibert Andy Guibert So you're saying when I type Command Prompt into the start menu, it's returning a shortcut to cmd.
Musixauce precisely. Thank you so much. This combined with the answer from Mike has put me in a FAR better off place for understand the rest of the mess I couldn't even manage to get too in my question :p Thanks!
Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Old bit applications are available as both DOS and Windows programs. DOS programs by their nature are console applications and run in what looks like the command-prompt.
However bit Windows console applications are very similar and look the same. It provides an emulated DOS system hence the virtual DOS machine which is similar to running a dedicated virtual machine software, except the emulation layer is simpler. In addition, it does not support. However, it supports graphical DOS programs like old games , but the success of running them depends on the video-card drivers and the nature of the program.
And even then, if you try and run a 16 bit program in CMD. COM for you anyway, so you still may not need to know or care. The 64bit version of Windows does, I believe, include another command processor, one for native 64bit command-line programs.
Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. You cleared it within one minute : …….. I have a friend that is getting a command. What would cause command. It is a WinXP system. Leo, can you or anyone else explain this to me?
If you start a program or a batch job which results in thousands of lines of feedback…. NOT with command. IOW you can just scroll back and back and back. No fancy-pancy true-type fonts though. Wow, thanks much for the tech note. Gets very frustrating when you know something is supposed to work, but it does not and you can quickly search and find a fast solution.
A lot of the malware prevents cmd. Wow great article. DOS programs by their nature are console applications and run in what looks like the command-prompt. However bit Windows console applications are very similar and look the same.
It provides an emulated DOS system hence the virtual DOS machine which is similar to running a dedicated virtual machine software, except the emulation layer is simpler. In addition, it does not support. However, it supports graphical DOS programs like old games , but the success of running them depends on the video-card drivers and the nature of the program.
There are numerous sites that offer various tricks to get DOS games to run on Windows though success on Vista and up is usually more limited than on XP. It should be noted that bit versions of Windows have completely dropped support of bit programs, and so do not include command at all, so neither DOS nor Windows bit programs will run and instead will throw a misleading error message. This provides the interesting observation that while Windows uses the extension as an indicator of how to handle most file-types, for executable ones, it ignores the extension and looks at its contents otherwise an.
This question relates to this effect. This allows it to take advantage of features available to native programs on the platform that are otherwise unavailable to DOS programs. That's from this informative Wikipedia article. There is mention of how older command. They're different shells so the syntax and many other things are different. Some good information has been provided in other answers so here is a summary of the syntax differences. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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