On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>wrote:

In Windows, that is the DOS prompt -- either cmd.com or command.exe, I
> never remember which one is which.


I'm pretty sure that was intentional, but just in case...

In MS-DOS/PC-DOS, and in 16-bit versions of Windows (up to Windows 98/Me,
in other words), the command interpreter is COMMAND.COM

In 32-bit versions of Windows, you can still use the 16-bit interpreter if
you want - although it's deprecated, and has been removed entirely in
64-bit Windows - but the native 32-bit command interpreter is CMD.EXE

(I used all-caps for emphasis without requiring HTML formatting, but in
fact Windows is generally case-insensitive.)
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