cmd and command functionality difference

[rookie1010]

Hello

Is there any difference in the functionality between cmd and command in windows xp?

 

[Rilex]

cmd is the native 32bit command environment. command is launched under the 16bit NTVDM.

 

[rookie1010]

thanks for the reply

is cmd as a virtual dos machine?

 

[Rilex]

No, cmd is the native command processor.

 

[rookie1010]

noob question !!

what is a native command processor?

 

[Nothinman]

is cmd as a virtual dos machine?

This would imply that it's a DOS emulator to let you run DOS applications, this isn't true. It's just a command-line interface. The fact that some of the commands are the same as those in DOS is irrelevant, they're just there because MS didn't want to make people relearn all of the commands for no reason.

 

[rookie1010]

thanks for the reply

if a CLI is emulating a DOS shell, then is it not a DOS emulator?

 

[Nothinman]

if a CLI is emulating a DOS shell, then is it not a DOS emulator?

No, because it's not emulating DOS.

 

[Link19]

CMD is the native Windows NT command prompt. Just because it looks like a DOS command prompt, does NOT mean it is really DOS.

POS Windows 98/ME only have command.com and no native 32-bit command prompt, so that proves they are based on DOS and NOT a true 32-bit OS.

An OS/2 command prompt while it may look like a DOS command prompt as well, IT is NOT 16-bit DOS. It is a command prompt on top of a native high quality 32-bit OS kernel. It is not DOS at all even though it looks like DOS and many of the commands are the same. The same is true with the native CMD Windows NT command prompt.

The DOS command prompts in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 and OS/2 are COMMAND.com running through complete emulation. It is not at all real native DOS unlike in POS Win95/98/ME.

 

[Nothinman]

POS Windows 98/ME only have command.com and no native 32-bit command prompt, so that proves they are based on DOS and NOT a true 32-bit OS.

That proves nothing of the sort, all it proves is that MS didn't write 32-bit cli for it.

 

[stash]

The DOS command prompts in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 and OS/2 are COMMAND.com running through complete emulation. It is not at all real native DOS unlike in POS Win95/98/ME.

What in the hell are you raving about?

 

[rookie1010]

thansk for the replies guys

it makes sense now. i discovered i can paste text in cmd, but with command there is no paste funcationality.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: stash

The DOS command prompts in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 and OS/2 are COMMAND.com running through complete emulation. It is not at all real native DOS unlike in POS Win95/98/ME.

What in the hell are you raving about?

ROFLHAHAHA

Yeah he like came in here and took a big tornado-like poop all over the thread ranting about some crap.



Rookie, something you might want to note..
If you run command.exe you will see NTVDM spawn in your list of processes. This is because it's a dos command and needs a virtual dos environment.

cmd.exe doesn't do the same thing. It's simply a command line interface to the native 32 bit operating system.

 

[smack Down]

The real difference is cmd lets you use tab completion and copy paste better then in command.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: smack Down
The real difference is cmd lets you use tab completion and copy paste better then in command.

You werent really paying attention were you?

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