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(COMMAND.COM uses temporary files, and runs the two sides serially, one after the other.) Multiple commands can be processed in a single command line using the command separator &&. [8] When using this separator in the Windows cmd.exe, each command must complete successfully for the following commands to execute. For example:
The category Windows commands deals with articles related to internal and external commands supported by members of the Windows family of operating systems including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows ME as well as the NT family.
In MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, the temporary directory is set by the environment variable TEMP or TMP. [1] Using the Window API, one can find the path to the temporary directory using the GetTempPath2 function, [2] or one can obtain a path to a uniquely-named temporary file using the GetTempFileName function. [3]
Microsoft Windows supports creating CAB archive files using the makecab command-line utility. It supports extracting the contents of a CAB archive files using File Explorer, Setup API, and using the command-line commands expand.exe, [10] extract.exe and extrac32.exe. [11] [12] Other well-known software with CAB archive support includes WinZip ...
The command processors in OS/2 and Windows NT pretty much emulate the DOS 3.3 or DOS 5 command line, even down to replicating missing commands as downloads (deltree, choice etc). Although DOS derives from CP/M and UNIX, it is pretty much the command set of DOS 5 (from which Windows NT and OS/2 derive), and some dos 6 utilities (choice, deltree ...
cmd.exe /F:ON enables file and directory name completion characters (^F and ^D by default). Use cmd.exe /? for more information. TweakUI can be used to configure the keys used for file name and directory name completion. [8] The MS-DOS command processor COMMAND.COM did not have command-line completion: pressing the tab key would just advance ...
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. The underlying Win32 API is ShellExecute.
Microsoft released a version of cmd.exe for Windows 9x and ME called WIN95CMD to allow users of older versions of Windows to use certain cmd.exe-style batch files. As of Windows 8, cmd.exe is the normal command interpreter for batch files; the older COMMAND.COM can be run as well in 32-bit versions of Windows able to run 16-bit programs.