Re: MS DOS

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From: Shane (arthursixpence_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:48:10 -0000

I ran a batch from DOS/9x tonight using XP's Command.com and it didn't work,
but using CMD.exe it did. Which was opposite to what I expected.

Shane

"cquirke (MVP Win9x)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in message
news:ilv950pfthj46kq9mchs0scgsh5ccimjv1@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:17:05 -0800, "Matt"
>
> >Hi does anyone know where the program MS-DOS is located
> >on Windows XP Home Edition? Thanks
>
> It isn't. XP emulates DOS internally, and offers a choice of two
> command prompts; CMD.EXE (the native NT commad interpreter) and
> COMMAND.COM (a rather dated DOS interpreter that looks like it came
> from an MS-DOS 5 time warp).
>
> There's no stand-alone equivalent to DOS mode either. You can run XP
> with CMD.EXE as the shell (the "command prompt only" option) or you
> can boot the Recovery Console off CD, which is not an OS at all, but
> is instead a commad-line-driven grab-bag of handy fixers.
>
> However, XP can generate DOS mode boot diskettes. These aren't much
> good as DOS mode boot diskettes go, based as they are on WinME's
> horribly botched DOS implimentation, and they can't read NTFS volumes.
>
> Note that if you have a "brand name" PC, you may have been cheated out
> of the Recovery Console by the computer manufacturer.
>
>
>
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