Is there a command prompt in Win2K?

[Muerto]

Title pretty much says it all. In Win98 I could go Start => Programs => MS-DOS Prompt. Can I still do that in Win2K? Thanks.

 

[Ladi]

Start>Run>cmd or command
Start>Programs>Accessories>Command Prompt

~Ladi

 

[Muerto]

There it is! Thanks.

 

[Damaged]

Or use cmd instead of command. If I remember correctly cmd is the 32bit version. I think it has filename completion, I KNOW it recognizes directory names with spaces in them!

 

[Panther505]

Damaged- you will not have file completition unless you have hacked the registry but you will have the abililty to use directories with out the quotes to get long file names. if any one want the reg hack for tab completition of file names let me know

 

[Damaged]

Okay, I could be wrong there, but I swore when I used that one it did filename completion. Trust me I was astonished, but I'm used to that as I work on Linux/*NIX systems most of the day, so it's a natural thing for me to do: start typing the filename, <tab>.

Trust me, I'm no expert on Win2K by any means!

 

[AndyHui]

Tab file completion can be activated by TweakUI.

By default, executing &quot;command&quot; passes directly to CMD.

 

[syf3r]

what's the syntax for automatically passing a command to the command prompt, if i create a shortcut for the command prompt...? for example, if i want to be able to have a shortcut for the command prompt, and when i doubleclick it, it automatically runs 'telnet hostname.domain.com' or some other such command sequence... does anyone know the syntax to use in the 'target' of the shortcut...?

-syf3r.

 

[cirrus1]

The best thing I would say is to create a bat file. Place the line in a text file and save it as file.bat.

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor]
&quot;CompletionChar&quot;=dword:0000004001
&quot;PathCompletionChar&quot;=dword:00000040