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Windows® XP Under the Hood
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Windows® XP Under the Hood

by Brian Knittel
July 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
736 pages
16h 43m
English
Que
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Chapter 11. The CMD Command-Line Environment

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  • This chapter introduces the command-line environment.

  • Command-line programs can be powerful and useful. Honest.

  • The CMD shell has many improvements over COMMAND.COM.

  • The built-in commands provided by CMD perform many file and management functions.

The Command Prompt

I spent the first 10 chapters of this book extolling the virtues of Windows Script Host programming and proclaiming it to be the right tool for all Windows automation tasks. Now it's time to confess that “all” may not be the right word, and in the remainder of the book, I'll show you why.

While most of the fanfare over programming advances in the last decade has been over windowed applications with pull-down menus, dialog boxes, and all ...

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