command prompt DOS?

[bob]

isn't command prompt the same as dos?
it sure acts like dos...
thanks.

 

[Steve C. Ray]

XP has some basic DOS functions only, not the complete DOS.

 

[xe77]

COMMAND.COM ==> Virtual MS-DOS for Windows
CMD.EXE ==> Windows "Command Prompt"

 

[M. Rajesh]

Hi,

It is just an emulator for dos but it is not the actual
dos that you had when Dos 6.22 was around.

Regards
M. Rajesh
www.winxpsolution.com

 

[bob]

thanks...i only got basic skills in dos from early 90's

 

[bob]

thanks....i still have my win3.1 computer working!!!!!
use it for games only.

 

[bob]

thanks.....these must be "run" commands....

-----Original Message-----
COMMAND.COM ==> Virtual MS-DOS for Windows
CMD.EXE ==> Windows "Command Prompt"


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[David Candy]

No. Nothing to do with Dos. XP's command prompt is a 32 bit windows console
application. Any command you type into a Dos command prompt get given to the
32 bit command prompt for execution.

Type in start Run

cmd
then dir /?

command
then dir /?

command /k dir /?
[This is the Dos 5 Dir command. The other two show the Windows equivelent
commands - this is the only way to issue an internal dos command].

 

[Ken Blake]

In

isn't command prompt the same as dos?

It emulates DOS. It's not real DOS.

it sure acts like dos...

In many, but not all, respects it does.

 

[Alex Nichol]

isn't command prompt the same as dos?

It is not DOS (16 bit operating system running in the CPU's intel '86'
mode) but a 32 bit command interpreter running in an emulated
environment - so it *looks* like a DOS command interpreter and will run
well behaved DOS programs