On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:40:23 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:55:51 -0700, "N. Miller"
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:12:34 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

Rubbish.

What he wanted to know was how to use the xcopy command.

What the OP said:

| How do you leave windows to return to DOS prompt?

How do you "leave" Windows without "exiting"? Basic English. You are
interpolating what you think he wanted with what he actually said. You may
be right, in the end, but it is he who used ambiguous English. Let him
return to the thread to disambiguate his statement; don't be putting words
in his mouth that you think he may have meant, unless you are privy to
knowledge that the rest of us mortals have not.

It's a metaphor, my china ...

Your Chinese sucks!

... and Windows uses lots of metaphors, in order to make it "user friendly"
and enable the user to avoid having to know all about the underlying intricacies
of the operating system.

'Twas the OP's words, not Windows. I don't know the OP well enough to know
that he speaks in metaphors. Do you?

Windows uses paper file folders as a metaphor for directories, which is a bit
like early cars having reins coming through the dashboard and a socket for a
whip.

Not really. And I really do hate car analogies; they are usually strained
beyond any utility.

The letter kills, but the spirit gives life, and Windows uses too many
metaphors as it is, but it's in the spirit of Windows to do so, and so if the
user wants to leave the GUI in order to give commands to the operating system,
so be it.

But you don't "leave the GUI" when you invoke a command prompt. The GUI is
right their under the command prompt window.

He doesn't necessarily want to close Windows, just not work through
it for the moment.

Or so you assume.

Originally the GUI ran on top of the operating system, now it is more integrated,
but for the purpose of what the user wants to do, it doesn't matter. The spirit
of Windows is to try to be user friendly. It doesn't always succeed, but it
doesn't need people deliberately trying to make it user hostile.

None of which disambiguates the OP's ambiguous statement.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum