"Hodges" wrote in message

On Sep 22, 6:30 pm, sandy58 wrote:
On Sep 21, 6:48 pm, "Twayne" wrote:



"Stan Brown" wrote in message

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Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:53:41 -0700 from Malke :

navnah wrote:

How do you leave windows to return to DOS prompt? I need to use
DOS XCOPY command to back up damaged files.

There is no DOS in Windows XP so you can't do this as you could in
Win9x/ME.

Or, to answer what the OP really wants to know, click
Start | Programs | Accessories | Command prompt.

If it's not there, click Start | Run and enter this command
cmd /k
then click OK

I will never understand why normally helpful people say "there is
no DOS" and then stop, when they know perfectly well that everyone
but a few use "DOS" as a short term for "the command prompt". Is it
technically accurate? no, but neither are lots of short forms of
speech.

Actually, Microsoft describes the Command Prompt as a DOS window
too, in so many places one could never count them. It's even in the
Help & Support area on your own computer. The proper definition is
that XP is not BUILT ON TOP OF DOS as other windws versions were
and thus is not DOS based as other windows versions were. It does
in fact still have a DOS window, found in the Command Prompt, and
today it is much more than a simple DOS emulator since it has many
many more possible commands at the user's disposal.
Purists such as you encountered are silly and nonsensical beings in
that they have no wish to help the OP but rather only wish to show
their own egoes to the world. Who cares?

You tell them, Twayne. DOS works with XP. If I can move stuff around,
get rid of files etc that won't move in Windows, et al......I have
DOS!!!! Pseudo or whatever the so-called MS fundi's want to call
it.......it's freakin' DOS!! Just because MS used the story as a
sales pitch (people were scared of DOS) "Windows XP has no DOS"
these afore- mentioned fundis use the same dogma, "No such thing as
DOS in....." till they begin to actually believe their chant.

DOS does not work with XP and cannot read NTFS volumes without 3rd-
party applications such as NTFS4DOS. The command prompt is not the
DOS operating system just because it is a command-line interpreter.
This isn't just arguing semantics here, it really is NOT the same as
DOS. It isn't even an emulator. DOS is 16-bit, programs that run
under Windows XP's command line are 32-bit.

By your logic, Windows 95 is the same as XP in the Windows Classic
theme because they look similar.

Calling the command-line interpreter "DOS" is just as ignorant as
calling a computer tower or monitor the CPU.

Once again, another post with totally moot points. If you have no room
in your life for newbies who haven't yet gotten hold of the lingo, then
you should go elsewhere to show off your ego. If you aren't going to
address the OP's question somehow, then you have/had no business posting
anything here.
Windows95 is windows.
windows is not necessarily win9x or winXP or ... .
Therefore I could easily say "windows" and mean XP. And since this is
an XP group ...
This post is of no use to anyone.