• DOS Shell is a file manager that debuted in MS-DOS and PC DOS version 4.0, released in June 1988. It was no longer included in MS-DOS version 6, but remained...
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    such as Microsoft Windows), text-based user interface menus (such as DOS Shell and IBM AIX SMIT), and keyboard shortcuts. Compared with a graphical user...
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    DOS/360 from 1966. Others include Apple DOS, Apple ProDOS, Atari DOS, Commodore DOS, TRSDOS, and AmigaDOS. IBM PC DOS (and the separately sold MS-DOS)...
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  • Windows shell with another program. A number of third party shells exist that can be used in place of the standard Windows shell. DOS Shell Command Prompt...
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    COMMAND.COM (redirect from COMMAND (shell))
    the DOS API to communicate with the disk operating system. The compatible command processor under FreeDOS is sometimes also named FreeCom. As a shell, COMMAND...
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    MS-DOS compatible systems include: IBM PC DOS DR-DOS, Novell DOS, OpenDOS FreeDOS PTS-DOS ROM-DOS Microsoft made IBM PC DOS for IBM. It and MS-DOS were...
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    A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered...
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  • Unix-like operating systems but not on DOS, OS/2, and Windows. In most Unix and Unix-like command-line shells, an environment variable's value is retrieved...
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    Unix shells (Bourne shell, tcsh, bash, etc.), cmd.exe on Microsoft Windows NT/2000+ and Windows PowerShell on Windows 7+ and COMMAND.COM on DOS/ Microsoft...
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  • this is an ASCII Control-Z, code 26. Some MS-DOS programs, including parts of the Microsoft MS-DOS shell (COMMAND.COM) and operating-system utility programs...
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    additional functions. Some notable programs of this kind were Microsoft Word, DOS Shell, WordPerfect, Norton Commander, Turbo Vision based Borland Turbo Pascal...
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  • operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs)....
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    operating systems. MS-DOS and Xenix relied almost exclusively on the CLI (though MS-DOS 5 also came with a complementary graphical DOS Shell.) The Windows 9x...
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    IBM PC DOS (an acronym for IBM Personal Computer Disk Operating System), also known as PC DOS or IBM DOS, is a discontinued disk operating system for...
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    with the shell. POSIX shells and other Unix shells allow background execution by using the & character at the end of command. In PowerShell, the Start-Process...
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    Bash, short for Bourne-Again SHell, is a shell program and command language supported by the Free Software Foundation and first developed for the GNU...
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  • ipconfig settings in Vista Windows 95, 98, ME; Windows 2000 and XP MS-DOS shell syntax ipconfig documentation for Windows Mac OS X ipconfig(8): view and...
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  • cmd.exe is the counterpart of COMMAND.COM in DOS and Windows 9x systems, and analogous to the Unix shells used on Unix-like systems. The initial version...
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  • Tech Icons: Where Are They Now?". Mashable. Retrieved October 15, 2016. "DOS user Need No Longer Covet After Dark for Windows". PC Magazine. Vol. 12,...
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    COM file (redirect from DOS COM executable)
    management system. An example of a complex program is COMMAND.COM, the DOS shell, which provided a loader to load other COM or EXE programs. In the .COM...
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    XTree (category DOS software)
    the market, as DOS shipped with only a command-line file manager, until the generally unsuccessful DOS Shell that was provided with MS-DOS 4.0. Even then...
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  • Norton Commander (redirect from Visual DOS)
    Desktop, a graphical shell for MS-DOS and Windows, succeeded Norton Commander. It came in two variants, Norton Desktop for DOS and Norton Desktop for...
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    art). These animations, however, required ANSI.SYS to be loaded by the DOS shell. If the user's computer wasn't already configured to load the ANSI.SYS...
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  • Digital Research/Novell DR DOS, the AROS shell, the Microware OS-9 shell, and ReactOS. The command is also available for FreeDOS and Microsoft Windows. In...
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  • AUTOEXEC.BAT (redirect from AUTOEXEC.DOS)
    AUTOEXEC.BAT is a system file that was originally on DOS-type operating systems. It is a plain-text batch file in the root directory of the boot device...
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    functionality of the platform. However, the CLI/Shell of Amiga is not just a simple text-based interface like in MS-DOS, but another graphic process driven by...
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    Mkdir (redirect from MD (DOS command))
    DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS operating systems is used to make a new directory. It is also available in the EFI shell and...
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  • KDE DOS Shell in MS-DOS/PC DOS File Manager in Windows macOS Finder Nautilus in GNOME (default since v2.30) File Explorer (Windows Explorer) PC Shell in...
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    one-line code change Easy DOS Configuration Wizard simplifies the setup and launching of a single dBASE program Enhanced DOS SHELL functionality Display for...
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    a shell is a computer program that exposes an operating system's services to a human user or other programs. In general, operating system shells use...
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