[49759] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [OT] Re: Readiness for IPV6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Tue Jul 9 20:32:35 2002
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:27:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20020709192736.F3434@techmonkeys.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Matthew S. Hallacy
> Sent: July 9, 2002 8:28 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: [OT] Re: Readiness for IPV6
>
>
> Pardon me:
>
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
>
> C:\>command /?
> Starts a new instance of the MS-DOS command interpreter.
>
> COMMAND [[drive:]path] [device] [/E:nnnnn] [/P] [/C string] [/MSG]
>
> [snip rest of output]
>
> Looks like it still claims to be the MS-DOS command
> interpreter to me, using the 'user friendly' name of 'Command
> Prompt' doesn't change what it is.
Pardon me:
[brand new command prompt from the WinXP command prompt button]
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Vivien>command
Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.
C:\DOCUME~1\VIVIEN>
C:\DOCUME~1\VIVIEN>
It looks to me like you have cmd.exe, which is a 32-bit Windoze-native
etc shell, and then you have command.com which is used to run legacy DOS
stuff. Command.com feels a _lot_ slower to me, too.
Vivien
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Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
http://www.dyndns.org/
