DOS Shell is a file manager that debuted in MS-DOS and PC DOS version 4.0, released in June 1988. It was no longer included in MS-DOS version 6, but remained...
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Command-line interface (redirect from Command-line shell)
such as Microsoft Windows), text-based user interface menus (such as DOS Shell and IBM AIX SMIT), and keyboard shortcuts. Compared with a graphical user...
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COMMAND.COM (redirect from COMMAND (shell))
the DOS API to communicate with the disk operating system. The compatible command processor under FreeDOS is sometimes also named FreeCom. As a shell, COMMAND...
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DOS/360 from 1966. Others include Apple DOS, Apple ProDOS, Atari DOS, Commodore DOS, TRSDOS, and AmigaDOS. IBM PC DOS (and the separately sold MS-DOS)...
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Windows shell with another program. A number of third party shells exist that can be used in place of the standard Windows shell. DOS Shell Command Prompt...
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MS-DOS compatible systems include: IBM PC DOS DR-DOS, Novell DOS, OpenDOS FreeDOS PTS-DOS ROM-DOS Microsoft made IBM PC DOS for IBM. It and MS-DOS were...
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Environment variable (redirect from Shell variable)
Unix-like operating systems but not on DOS, OS/2, and Windows. In most Unix and Unix-like command-line shells, an environment variable's value is retrieved...
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A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered...
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operating systems. MS-DOS and Xenix relied almost exclusively on the CLI (though MS-DOS 5 also came with a complementary graphical DOS Shell.) The Windows 9x...
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additional functions. Some notable programs of this kind were Microsoft Word, DOS Shell, WordPerfect, Norton Commander, Turbo Vision based Borland Turbo Pascal...
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