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> On 8/27/2013 3:57 PM, clipka wrote:
>> Am 27.08.2013 23:19, schrieb Patrick Elliott:
>>> On 8/27/2013 3:31 AM, Stephen wrote:
>>>> "Fractracer" <lg.### [at] gmail com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I remember win95, a good user interface with DOS - where is DOS now?
>>>>
>>>> Hidden in the command prompt box: cmd.exe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Uh. No. That is a shell, yes, and it "sort of" works like DOS, but.. its
>>> oddly missing like.. every single added program that ever came with, it,
>>> including "basic" ones, like ways to make your "shell" wait for a
>>> keypress, or any other damn thing at all. And, of course, since they
>>> *don't* want you to actually use it, they never added in any of the
>>> features that might have gotten into it (if they had stolen them from
>>> say 4DOS, or others), before Win3.11 came around.
>>
>> Well, they /did/ add support for blanks in command parameters at least.
>> And for long filenames, thank God and all the angels! (Cursed be every
>> piece of software that still makes any use of 8.3 filenames! - They're
>> /still/ in Windows for backward compatibility.)
>>
>> As for them not wanting you to use it, what they do want you to use
>> nowadays is the PowerShell. Not that I've ever heard of anyone using it
>> to solve any scripting tasks though: They either seem to be using .bat
>> files for cmd.exe, or asking you to install python.
>>
> Except that it can't bloody make up its mind when it works, and doesn't,
> some times. You get the same problem though trying to manually edit
> links. If you don't put "" around certain things the OS, despite
> supposedly knowing about bloody spaces in file names, freaks out and
> won't save it. Because, you know, the GUI should get just as confused by
> such names as the cmd.exe program does... lol
For what it's worth, most *nix shells and comand line utilities also
have a conniption when it comes to spaces in file names.
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