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[Jason <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Udo Kuhnt wrote:
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> > Yes, a dos version issue. Like I said. CLI means Command Line Interface.
> > Those are version or application compatibility issues. Not cli issues.
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> But the CLI resides in COMMAND.COM or CMD.EXE which are applications
> that run in the actual OS. What you call version or application
> compatibility issues is at the heart of the problem since any program
> that you run from the CLI is actually a command. 
No, I assumed we here would make the distinction between 'applications 
or other programs' from 'command' programs.  But the cli is the command 
line interface meaning the command programs vs application programs you 
have at your disposal at the command line.  I suppose the line could get 
fuzzy.  Some don't consider sed a command while others do.
So I'd leave it to the stock commands. 

Are there commands available in w2k that aren't available in xp?  
Available in earlier versions of dos that aren't available in xp for 
that matter?
> Shells are written for
> a particular OS which you cannot really separate them from, simply
> because they call OS-specific functions. How could you tell whether it
> is a restriction of the OS or the shell that keeps a command from
> working properly if you cannot make the shell itself work in another OS?
>
> Udo
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