I’ve been hearing this a lot lately (you know who you are), so rather than pull all of you aside privately and give this lecture, I thought I’d do it once, publicly. You’re not running a DOS prompt.
When you click on that shortcut that says, “Command Prompt” in Windows XP, or you run cmd.exe
from the “Run” box, you’re not starting a “DOS prompt.” What you are starting is a command line interface, or just “command line” if you prefer. If you haven’t actually run COMMAND.COM
, it’s not DOS!.
So, please, next time don’t tell me to run your favorite utility “at the DOS prompt.” Let DOS rest in peace.
The first person to call Powershell a DOS prompt will get the lecture in real time.
Funny thing is I just tried to run command.com from the run prompt and XP gave me an error. Looks like MS wants to dump DOS too!