John Ferrell wrote:

> I was not aware of the command line commands digest, I too was convinced it 
> was all but gone. 

I don't know where this seemingly common belief comes from. Besides not
being gone, the command line in Win2k/XP is quite a bit better than the old
DOS box from Win9x times. 

Helpful may be the "Cmd" link from the doc page Matt posted a link to:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/cmd.mspx?mfr=true

Scroll down to the sections about command extensions (by default enabled on
XP, but not on 2k) and name completion (by default not enabled, but quite
useful).


(Of course I won't try to compare cmd with any of the *x type shells... But
you can install most of them natively, with native builds of *x command
line tools, on Windows also.) 

Gerhard

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