<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@pearwood.info" target="_blank">steve@pearwood.info</a>></span> wrote: <br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
In Windows, that is the DOS prompt -- either <a href="http://cmd.com" target="_blank">cmd.com</a> or command.exe, I never remember which one is which. </blockquote><br></div>I'm pretty sure that was intentional, but just in case...<br>
<br>In MS-DOS/PC-DOS, and in 16-bit versions of Windows (up to Windows 98/Me, in other words), the command interpreter is <a href="http://COMMAND.COM">COMMAND.COM</a><br><br>In 32-bit versions of Windows, you can still use the 16-bit interpreter if you want - although it's deprecated, and has been removed entirely in 64-bit Windows - but the native 32-bit command interpreter is CMD.EXE<br>
<br>(I used all-caps for emphasis without requiring HTML formatting, but in fact Windows is generally case-insensitive.)<br>