Re: Change File Attributes


"mayayana" <mayaXXyana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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DOS .... have no
place in the WinNT engine.


Speak for yourself. I'm writing this on Win98.

Win98 - isn't that o/s now off support from MS?

Regardless, the "have no place in the WinNT engine" is also off topic, as
vbscript is operable on non-WinNT engines.

/Al

Calling the Command Console "DOS" is frequently causing confusion,
with some posters talking about fdisk or config.sys when dealing with
boot issues. Using the proper term "Command Console" would avoid this
confusion.

I admit, however, that even Microsoft engineers use the term DOS
at times when speaking about the command console. Old habits die hard . .
.


If I boot to Win98 and open a "console" window it's
an MS-DOS window. I can also boot to DOS, where I
can run an ATTRIB command. (And if I happen to be
dual-booting with XP on a FAT32 partition I can also
use that DOS ATTRIB command on my XP files.)

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".

Though I might sometimes refer to VBScript as "the
scripting tool created to replace the outdated, text-only
DOS tools when PCs began to have modern amenities like
mice and a graphical interface" :)





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