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Old 20-09-2005, 00:25   #11
timewarrior2001
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Re: Using the Command Prompt

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Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy
why in this day and age would people be taught DOS commands? The whole point of having a GUI is to stop the user having to remember command names and the syntax of those commands
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yep. specifying the drive letter and the directory structure makes the command independent of the current directory your DOS prompt is in


Because in some circumstances you need to understand DOS. Many things dont use GUI's.
And secondly 99% of IT courses in school and college are Soooooooo out of date they use DOS still and teach DOS.
Multi autoexec and multi config files was an old fav of mine, as well as using Debug to search for possible virus infection!!!!!
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