Dos Command Problem

[Harsha G]

After installing a software by name Manugisics 5.4.4,
some of the dos commands like ipconfig,net.. are not
working.
I m getting message which says these commands are not
recognized.
Infact, these commands worked before installing the
application mentioned above.

 

[Guest]

XP doesn't have a full version of DOS. Just a DOS
command prompt. Your program may not work in XP. You
could try the XP program compitablity mode to see if that
helps with the program.

 

[SteveL]

Check your enviroment variables, right click my computer,
left properties, click the avanced tab st the bottom click
enviroment variables.

PATH
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32
\WBEM

copy past from post if different, then reboot and try
again.

 

[*Vanguard*]

After installing a software by name Manugisics 5.4.4,
some of the dos commands like ipconfig,net.. are not
working.
I m getting message which says these commands are not
recognized.
Infact, these commands worked before installing the
application mentioned above.

Those are *external* commands which means a program gets loaded to run
that functionality, just like winword.exe, outlook.exe, and paint.exe
are external commands that load a program. Internal commands are those
that are built into the command-line interpreter (cmd.exe), like dir,
echo, type, cd, and ren. As long as the command-line interpreter can be
found to load it, there is no hunting needed to find the internal
commands. External commands need to be found, first by looking in the
current directory and then, if not found, searching through the
directories in the order listed in the PATH environment variable.

Sounds like this new programs farked over your PATH environment
variable.