DOS prompt
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Or until the command prompt is completely removed in favour of PowerShell.
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I like Vista. Never had a problem, short of slow file copies, and sorting the explorer file lists....
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Aristotle
Fair enough - my dad, however, hasn't been as fortunate as yourself.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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What's in a name? It looks like a DOS prompt, it quacks like DOS prompt... I do most of my work in a DOS box, with DOS commands like: DIR and DEL and TYPE and EDIT, the same as I have for twenty years or more. The lack of a command line was a big part of why I never used a Mac. They can have my DOS prompt when they pry it from my cold dead hands. On the other hand, I see that they have made improvements that really should have been in DOS decades ago.
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Aahhhh ... takes me back to my youth. Then again, I still use the console a lot. Most developers around have no idea how to use it. The other funny thing is that there is a difference between 'Start -> Run > cmd' and 'Start -> Run -> command' The one with command start out with saying 'Microsoft(R) Windows DOS', ignoring the settings in the registry (I am one of those people who changed the console to be green on black ... because it makes me look cool :cool:);
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
If I remember right, command is 16 bit, and cmd is 32. Or something like that. I do know that some apps won't start from a bat file (which is started using command when you double click it) but will from a .cmd file (which is started using cmd). Same applies to scheduled tasks. That took me a while to track down why it wouldn't start.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Aristotle
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It wasnt many months of PC usage when I already managed to Ctrl+Alt+Del using only my right hand because most of the time my left hand was occupied in holding phone (wired phone, you know those old clunky ones wih rolling number interface instead of buttons, hehe). Those days take me into what I am about to babble about, which is (surprisingly) not offtopic. I was already been a SysOp for some time when OS/2 Warp was introduced and we made the decision to move into using it in our BBS. I cant even remember what its prompt was called, was it "OS/2 Prompt"? Still I allways thought of it as "DOS prompt"... but nowadays (as I dont treasure badges of honors) I just refer to those as "prompt" or "console"... depends on how I feel. (usually using "console" is to annoy some other people who seem to fail in understanding my meaning because they want to argue about the word used which ultimately reveals they actually did understand what I meant in saying "No you cant call prompt a console".) Some users who dont know computers so well refer to it as "that black box" which is allways kind of cute, thinking "prompt = blackbox" :)
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein. To bad I have to do that with one of my bosses.....Click start, click run, type in cmd I have to spell it out like cat mouse dog Then it says windows cannot find. Then I have him read it back to me, he had actually put in catmousedog. Sad. Then I had ilikeicecreamplikepotatoconfig haha. People are funny.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Aristotle
The only thing worse is having to do that with your mom or sister. Actaully my mom is fairly adept at following instructions from a support person. Many years of being the girl in the office who they voluntold to call on technical issues. My sister however, hates computers and is only too happy to shove it in my lap for me to "just fix it." The last time I had to walk her through something over the phone I was doing my "Click start, now click run it is towards the bottom of the righ hand column of the start menu, do you see the text box?" when she starts giggling. When I asked her what was so funny she started laughing and excalimed "Your using your IT voice on me!" That afternoon I signed up for a free log-me-on account. :rolleyes: :sigh:
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I have my computer setup so when the command line (CMD) comes up it has a black background and green letters. Reminds me of my green screen days writing turbo pascal and batch files.
SS => Qualified in Submarines "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Winston Churchill "Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language". Unknown
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It is a badge of honour for us oldies! Some of us remember DOS 3.3! (And CP/M) Getting up a blank screen with a C:\> at the bottom, and nothing else kept the muggles away from the shiny things :)
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
Why feel old - use Linux where the "DOS" or "Command Prompt" is not only for getting around the Disk(s) in the Operating system - but code from 1960+ still runs - unlike the others who keep reinventing the wheel every 2 years :) --Jason Remember - At 3 you don't know much, at 18 you know everything... After 20 you have a clue, at 80 you know what you know well and know there still is more to learn. New Technology every few years mustn't know very much.
Know way too many languages... master of none!
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I have my computer setup so when the command line (CMD) comes up it has a black background and green letters. Reminds me of my green screen days writing turbo pascal and batch files.
SS => Qualified in Submarines "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Winston Churchill "Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language". Unknown
Jim (SS) wrote:
Reminds me of my green screen days writing turbo pascal and batch files.
the cool kids had amber screens :cool:
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lol Whenever I have to ask a user to open the command prompt I always ask them "Do you see a black box?" They always know what I mean, but asking if they see a black window, or a window with a black background they often get confused. Another way to describe it is to ask if they see the blinking line. CP/M was my first operating system as a kid, on a kaypro II with dual builtin floppies and 64k memory. We were high tech man!:cool: In my mind it will always be the dos prompt even if I don't call it that out loud.
CP/M Yikes! Whoever though of PIP as a good name for copy. In my earliest life on planet computer I repaired osbourne portables. About the same size as todays desktop. Aligning floppy disk drives for the best signal is one thing I am happy not to be doing now.
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CP/M Yikes! Whoever though of PIP as a good name for copy. In my earliest life on planet computer I repaired osbourne portables. About the same size as todays desktop. Aligning floppy disk drives for the best signal is one thing I am happy not to be doing now.
I used to do that for commodore 64 floppy drives - I hated wrenching but thought the alignment part was cool. --Jason
Know way too many languages... master of none!
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It is a badge of honour for us oldies! Some of us remember DOS 3.3! (And CP/M) Getting up a blank screen with a C:\> at the bottom, and nothing else kept the muggles away from the shiny things :)
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC