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From: "Mikael Aronsson" <mikael-aronsson AT telia DOT com>
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Cc: "Daniel Taupin" <taupind AT wanadoo DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] command.com vs. cmd.exe
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:28:09 +0100
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Hi !

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Taupin" <taupind AT wanadoo DOT fr>
To: "Mingw users list" <mingw-users AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net>; "DJGPP List"
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Cc: "Daniel Taupin" <taupind AT wanadoo DOT fr>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:12 AM
Subject: [Mingw-users] command.com vs. cmd.exe


> In order to make a portable documentation (possibly associated with a
> portable set of utilities) I want to know:
>
>   Is there in WinNT4, Win2000 and/or WinXP a line command controller
> (i.e. MSDOS emulation windows controller) named COMMAND.COM, in addition
> to the NT usual CMD.EXE ?
>

Yes

>   In that case, where is it typically stored (\WINDOWS or \WINNT) or its
> subdir SYSTEM32?
>

system32/command.com

>   Second point: somebody (usually competent) told me that (on Win2000
> and/or WinXP) cmd.exe called a command.com when it has to handle a *.bat
> file. Is that true, and under which conditions?
>

Not sure about that, but cmd can handle all the commands in a .bat file so I
don't see any reason to do so, but as I said, I am not sure about that.

Mikael

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