Dos

[Hundreth 10+ year member]

I had to use DOS today and my God is it useless compared to the Unix shell I'm used to. Don't even waste your time learning DOS, its like Microsoft wants you to forget it ever existed because even they know it blows chunks.

 

[mrogowski 5,000+ posts]

gotta know the past before you can really know the basis of what your doing. That is of course, if you truely want to be good at your field.

I understand that, but why DOS? Why not the Windows command shell?

Because you need to understand that a computer doesn't see a flashy GUI like we do. A computer only knows numbers 0 or 1, or basically on and off.
Dos teaches you to really understand the processes of what a computer might have to do compared to just simply clicking. I don't know why you would want to know DOS otherwise personally but to know the history it's good to know.

cls = clear screen

dir = directory

cd = change directory

cd..=go back a directory

ipconfig = shows i.p, subnet, gateway

ipconfig /all = well shows all

a command plus /? = shows you what all you can do with said command

that's really all you need to know, I can't think of anything else off the top of my head that I personally use whenever I bring up DOS. They might have you do something else though in class. It's been a while since I've had to do it.

I think what you are referring to this the command shell under Windows NT/2k/2003/etc. There was no ipconfig command under DOS.

DOS != Windows command shell

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

C:\ Dos

C:\ Dos Run

C:\ Run Dos Run

 

[mrogowski 5,000+ posts]

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Bad command or file name

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

I understand that, but why DOS? Why not the Windows command shell?



I think what you are referring to this the command shell under Windows NT/2k/2003/etc. There was no ipconfig command under DOS.

DOS != Windows command shell

woops, once again re-reading > me. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Hundreth 10+ year member]

I understand that, but why DOS? Why not the Windows command shell?



I think what you are referring to this the command shell under Windows NT/2k/2003/etc. There was no ipconfig command under DOS.

DOS != Windows command shell

What are you talking about? The Windows command shell basically IS DOS. Infact its actually just an emulated DOS shell. You are confusing internal shell commands with external shell commands. "cd" or "dir" are internal, "ipconfig" is external. If the external ipconfig application existed at the time of the original DOS, that command would work provided your path variables are setup correctly.

 

[Shyne151 10+ year member]

My question would be 'why?'

Gotta learn them. In the real world god knows how many dentists offices and shit still run old *** OS's. First thing they taught us at school.

 

[mrogowski 5,000+ posts]

What are you talking about? The Windows command shell basically IS DOS. You are confusing internal shell commands with external shell commands. "cd" or "dir" are internal, "ipconfig" is external. If the external ipconfig application existed at the time of the original DOS, that command would work provided your path variables are setup correctly.

Correct. The 'original DOS' was "DOS", as in MSDOS, DRDOS, IBMDOS, etc.

I cannot confirm whether an external program like ipconfig would actually work in the old MSDOS. It may call functions that the interpreter would not understand. If the application queries the hardware directly, then I assume it would work just fine...

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Nerd Fight!

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

my favorite is c:/CA.com/forum

 

[J31Rob 5,000+ posts]

Nerd Fight!

x2.

Who on hell's creation gives a fuck?

 

[SocMunky 10+ year member]

Gotta learn them. In the real world god knows how many dentists offices and shit still run old *** OS's. First thing they taught us at school.

Indeed...heck, there are still servers within Verizon running OS/2!

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

Abort, Retry, Fail