MS DOS

dir /b >files.txt


-handy for listing files in a directory

robocopy

besides them and ping, that's about all I use it for now
 
I run all the native CMD commands that I need through a PowerShell console. As good as Powershell is, some things are much simpler. Ping for instance.

As much as I love Powershell, I still keep in mind that you shouldn't shoehorn it into every situation. For example, just because I can backup/copy/move files using PS doesn't mean I should. Not when Robocopy already exists.
 
:confused: it makes perfect sense to me; that the command prompt isn't DOS, but it's probably as close as you're going to get to a DOS like interface without getting an old/virtual Machine set-up with 'proper' DOS on it.

...and by magic it gives you all the parameters so basically Windows 7 is still running with DOS in the background. It might not technically be MSDOS 6.2 but it acts like it and it can be used.
 
Only if you can't read
How else are you supposed to interpret "basically Windows 7 is still running with DOS in the background". Please enlighten me, oh wise one.

Edit: Actually don't bother. I don't care if you want to believe you're right and throw thinly-disguised insults around instead of addressing points. Everyone else can do their own research.
 
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Only if you can't read
Add me to the "can't read" list then, because the implication I'm getting from your post is that Win7 is a shell running on top of DOS in the same way that Windows 3.1 runs on top of DOS. It might not be what you meant to say, but that's definitely the way it comes across. :):p

It does get a bit confusing when people (perhaps understandably) talk about a "DOS prompt", a "DOS window" or "DOS commands" in the context of an NT-based version of Windows - it may have inherited a DOS-like command syntax, but the underlying OS is completely different.
 
It's just a CLI program command prompt nothing to do with dos, looks similar because it works.

And windows 7 is not built on top of it. :p

If you want an in-depth CLI OS use linux it has a GUI too ofcourse but very versatile.
 
How else are you supposed to interpret "basically Windows 7 is still running with DOS in the background". Please enlighten me, oh wise one.

Add me to the "can't read" list then,

And windows 7 is not built on top of it. :p


Since you all refuse to read the words I wrote and decided to do your own translations I'll put it in bigger letters

Navigate to the Run Prompt, Command Prompt, CLI (whatever you want to call it) and type something like copy/? and by magic it gives you all the parameters so basically Windows 7 is still running with DOS in the background. (This is not running on top of it, we all know Win 7 was supposedly built from the ground up)
It might not technically be MSDOS 6.2 but it acts like it and it can be used.

You have to ask yourself why Microsoft decided to take MSDOS away but then decided to use the same commands with the same parameters that run on a CLI.
Even though it isn't MSDOS it still very much acts like it no matter what technical buff you throw my way.
I still use those commands in batch files every day since 1988.

I'll leave you with this old saying:
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it's a duck (even though it might have metal legs now).
 
You're still wrong, there isn't DOS in the background (but I guess bigger text makes arguments more effective). However I doubt logic and reason can penetrate your field of self delusion, so I'm bowing out of this argument.

No amount of old sayings, backtracking or claims of misinterpretation can change the fact that you said "basically Windows 7 is still running with DOS in the background", which is completely wrong. But no, you're dmpoole so the thread has to stop in its tracks while you waste your time defending a position that numerous people can clearly see is wrong.

Microsoft used the same commands because they make sense to users, not because DOS still sits in the background.
 
Since you all refuse to read the words I wrote and decided to do your own translations I'll put it in bigger letters
I can't speak for the others, but I didn't read the words you didn't write, in big letters or not:

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No you don't.

Navigate to the Run Prompt, Command Prompt, CLI (whatever you want to call it) and type something like copy/? and by magic it gives you all the parameters so basically Windows 7 is still running with DOS in the background.
It might not technically be MSDOS 6.2 but it acts like it and it can be used.

I still use batch files that I run every day and as far as I can tell they are linking to old DOS commands eg copy move del cd mkdir

This is one I use all the time but only using parameters of the DOS dir command: dir /on /b /s >var.txt

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Originally Posted by dmpoole View Post
Navigate to the Run Prompt, Command Prompt, CLI (whatever you want to call it) and type something like copy/? and by magic it gives you all the parameters so basically Windows 7 is still running with DOS in the background. (This is not running on top of it, we all know Win 7 was supposedly built from the ground up)
It might not technically be MSDOS 6.2 but it acts like it and it can be used.

You have to ask yourself why Microsoft decided to take MSDOS away but then decided to use the same commands with the same parameters that run on a CLI.
I suppose for the simple reason that, by and large, they worked OK and people were familiar with them. Having said that, NT's cmd.exe has internal commands and functions that AFAIK weren't present in any version of command.com in DOS, and of course there are additional external commands (robocopy springs to mind).

I'll leave you with this old saying:
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it's a duck
It's an old saying but it's often wrong, definitely so in this case.
 
Wow what a petty row! :p

Move on people!
I don't think it's "petty", at least any more so than the vast majority of subject matter that gets discussed here, and I don't see it as a "row" - the idea that even a modern (NT-based) version of Windows is still running on top of DOS is quite a common misconception and it really needs nailing.

I'm sure dmpoole didn't mean to give that impression, but there's no harm in clarifying the position IMNSHO. :)
 
I don't think it's "petty", at least any more so than the vast majority of subject matter that gets discussed here, and I don't see it as a "row" - the idea that even a modern (NT-based) version of Windows is still running on top of DOS is quite a common misconception and it really needs nailing.

I'm sure dmpoole didn't mean to give that impression, but there's no harm in clarifying the position IMNSHO. :)

It's petty when it is obvious it wont be resolved. Especially when the giant bold text was deployed! :p
 

Because they introduced a GUI.

No matter how many times I read your post I can't understand it other than "DOS is still running in the background," which it isn't.

But I guess we all must be too stupid to understand this, so just through your toys around and big letters but it was what you wrote. And editing your original post with BIG LETTERS, doesn't help your case.
 
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