On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > BTW, unless you're using Windows 95/98/ME, you don't have a > "DOS Prompt". The command prompt in Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 isn't DOS. >
I don't see this as any sloppier than referring to "opening a <whatever> prompt" when you mean "opening up a windowed command interpreter". The command interpreter in NT+ uses an interface that derives from the original DOS command interpreter, and a lot of people consider it to be as primitive (not realising that it has a lot of features, eg tab completion, that are WAY better even than command+doskey); it's a lot closer to Unix's bash than to MS-DOS's command. (I do prefer bash, though.) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
