On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:31:18 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> On 02/06/2011 14:30, Francois Labreque wrote:
>> Le 2011-06-01 16:32, Orchid XP v8 a écrit :
>>> The command prompt is pretty much a deprecated way of doing things.
>>
>> Depends on what you do.
> 
> As far as Microsoft is concerned, the command prompt is deprecated. You
> should at least be using PowerShell. 

Those two statements contradict each other.  PowerShell is a command 
prompt, is it not?

> Ideally, you should write your
> scripts in VB (or better, VB.Net), or build a custom COM module, or
> whatever. The command prompt is for backwards compatibility with MS-DOS
> (which is beyond obsolete).
> 
> Not that anybody really listens to what MS wants, mind you...

Thank goodness for that. :)

Jim

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