Cannot use doscommands in Win2K
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Original Message
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Name: Mikeste
Date: September 4, 2003 at 05:17:42 Pacific
Subject: Cannot use doscommands in Win2K
OS: Win2K Proff
CPU/Ram: PIII 900 / 256 MB
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Comment: I can't use commands such as ping, ipconfig, netstat, xcopy etc. in the commandprompt under win2k proffesional. Can somebody help me fix this problem ? BR
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Response Number 1
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Name: x86
Date: September 4, 2003 at 06:53:06 Pacific
Subject: Cannot use doscommands in Win2K
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Reply: (edit)THERE IS NO DOS IN NT IS IS EMULATED, PERIOD If you type help in the COMMAND PROMPT window it will list valid commands available in emulated DOS
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Response Number 2
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Name: lloyd33
Date: September 4, 2003 at 08:10:02 Pacific
Subject: Cannot use doscommands in Win2K
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Reply: (edit)Shhhh.... dont say 'DOS' in the Windows forums. They get a little bit irate
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Response Number 3
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Name: Glen
Date: September 4, 2003 at 08:11:06 Pacific
Subject: Cannot use doscommands in Win2K |
Reply: (edit)True, but he is not saying anything about DOS. He says 'command prompt' which is correct and some of them were DOS commands. Either way - ping, ipconfig, netstat, etc should work just fine in the command prompt. What errors are you getting? What message does it return? It should work.
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Response Number 4
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Name: lloyd33
Date: September 4, 2003 at 09:25:27 Pacific
Subject: Cannot use doscommands in Win2K
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Reply: (edit)Good point. All of those commands work in my 'command prompt' on Windows 2000 Pro. Mikeste might not have a path pointing to the directory where those files are located. And if we want to get technical, Windows does have a Disk Operating System (A.K.A. DOS). Your computer boots doesn't it? You can save and retrieve files, right? Yeah, that's what I thought.... x86. I mean, every computer basically has a DOS. Unix, Linux, Windows, my crappy old TRS-80 with 5 1/4" floppies. I think that everybody gets stuck on the whole MS-DOS 6.22 issue where the computer would load Windows over top of DOS. So when people get all irate and say - "there is no DOS, only emulated DOS in NT", they really mean that the command prompt in Windows 2000/XP does not act like their old MS-DOS 6.22.
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