Re: Change File Attributes

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If I open a "console"
window in XP I can also run an ATTRIB command. The
command is the same. The method and window are
basically the same. It seems to me that what you
like to call "command console" is, in this case, basically
32-bit DOS emulation. I call it DOS because you're using
DOS commands and you're using them in DOS fashion:
in a text-only interface. So if it looks like DOS, acts like
DOS and is used like DOS then I call it DOS, just as I
would call Power Shell "Power Shell", or call VBS "VBScript"
and not "GUI Control Tool".

By your measure and with a small amount of tolerance you
could call a Unix console screen "DOS": It uses a black screen,
it has a prompt, it has a text interface and it has a number of
commands in common with DOS 3.3.


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