Re: MS DOS

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:24:55 +0000

cquirke (MVP Win9x) wrote:

>
>Command.com is not DOS, though it's part of the package of MS-DOS,
>Win9x, and NT. It is a program that can run on the DOS kernel, or the
>Win9x kernel, or the NT kernel. It interprets commands, either from
>the command prompt it offers or in the form of batch files (.bat).

And a comment - to rebut some who say you need command.com to run 95 or
98, and 'therefore' they are running 'on' DOS - no you don't. Provided
you do not have an autoexec.bat, needing command.com to interpret it
(And those systems are quite happy not to have one), you can delete
command.com entirely and windows will never notice. You won't of course
be able to run a bat file or DOS window - but Windows will not be
affected 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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