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Though NTLDR and boot.ini are no longer used to boot Windows Vista and later versions of Windows NT, they ship with the bootcfg utility regardless. This is to handle boot.ini in the case that a multi-boot configuration with previous versions of Windows exists and needs troubleshooting from within the later operating system.
AmigaDOS [10] and TSC FLEX [11] provide a delete command as well. The erase command is supported by Tim Paterson's SCP 86-DOS. [12] On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 1 and later. [13] It is also available in the open-source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox. Datalight ROM-DOS also includes an implementation of the del and erase commands. [14]
COMMAND.COM is the default command-line interpreter for MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me.In the case of DOS, it is the default user interface as well. [2] It has an additional role as the usual first program run after boot (init process), hence being responsible for setting up the system by running the AUTOEXEC.BAT configuration file, and being the ancestor of all processes.
Some commands are internal—built into COMMAND.COM; others are external commands stored on disk. When the user types a line of text at the operating system command prompt, COMMAND.COM will parse the line and attempt to match a command name to a built-in command or to the name of an executable program file or batch file on disk. If no match is ...
Many users of CP/M became accustomed to this as a method of managing multiple disks, by opening the disk drive to stop a program from reading or writing a file until the correct disk could be inserted.
When a user is logging on to Windows, the startup sound is played, the shell (usually EXPLORER.EXE) is loaded from the [boot] section of the SYSTEM.INI file, and startup items are loaded. In all versions of Windows 9x except ME, it is also possible to load Windows by booting to a DOS prompt and typing "win".
Changes made to the command line environment after SetLocal commands are local to the batch file. EndLocal command restores the previous settings. [17] The Call command allows subroutines within batch file. The Call command in COMMAND.COM only supports calling external batch files. File name parser extensions to the Set command are comparable ...
In computing, start is a command of the IBM OS/2, [1] Microsoft Windows [2] and ReactOS [3] command-line interpreter cmd.exe [4] (and some versions of COMMAND.COM) to start programs or batch files or to open files or directories using the default program. start is not available as a standalone program.