ITworld.com – Ok, well maybe the subject line of this column is stretching it just a wee bit. There’s no way that you can emulate more than a small fraction of Unix power at the DOS Command Prompt.

Buried deep within Windows’ bosom is a carbon-crusted fossil from the ancient days of computing. This aged wart on Windows’ soul harkens back to a more primitive time, when computers lacked the oomph ...

Moving files around by dragging and dropping in Windows Explorer is a simple task. Many long-time Windows users may never open a DOS command-line window and may not be familiar with commands that were ...

MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was the dominant operating system for Personal Computer throughout the 80s. MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system. MS-DOS allows the user to ...

A command-line interface is a terminal-style screen where you type commands at a prompt, one line at a time. You might associate it with the MS-DOS operating system that was widely used until the ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

Ok guys, I here to annoy you again.<BR><BR>I have to set up small feature on a project I'm doing, and I'm stuck.<BR><BR>I have to run this dos command from the vb app:<BR><BR>set username<BR><BR>so ...