ppl say "cmd" n "command.com" are different..once i read somewhere if you wanna run DOS, then u've to run "command.com" from the Run Box n not "cmd".
Please can anybody here elaborate?
Diff: cmd & command.com
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cmd are for NT systems I believe and command.com are for older systems. Like Windows 98 uses command.com, and Windows XP uses cmd. I don't have Windows though so I can't confirm if any of them can be run on the other one.
But basically they are two tool names for the same thing.
But basically they are two tool names for the same thing.
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Command.com exists even in windows 7 beta and according to links posted by hiper the cmd is for 32bit programs and command.com is for comatibility with 16bit programs.
"The bottom line is actually quite simple: use CMD.EXE unless you know you need COMMAND.COM for compatibility with some older 16bit program. And even then, if you try and run a 16 bit program in CMD.EXE, it will typically run it within COMMAND.COM for you anyway, so you still may not need to know or care."
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