Re: real simple: I need a leg up to use CLI only under Win32




"Tim Roberts" <timr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:75f9k1tc5gbj6ckmc9cma3oeak8t8cedcu@xxxxxxxxxx
> "Ben Bean" <kavs_scrapthis_@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >I really appreciate that leg up! Many thanks! But WME is one of those
weird
> >exceptions.. it doesn't offer a DOS prompt, I'm pretty dang sure.
>
> Once again, I am absolutely astounded at the incredible success of the
> Microsoft marketing machine in making its customers believe things that
are
> absolutely untrue.
>
> Windows ME is not significantly different from Windows 95, and at its core
> is not significantly different from Windows 3.1 plus the 32-bit
extensions.
> It still starts up as a straight MS-DOS command, and MS-DOS is still
> lurking down there underneath.
> --
> - Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

Yeah OK, but I don't have a lot of use for DOS and who would? ..so I got
derailed. I'm very fortunate to have asked at the right forum. And I'm REAL
fortunate to have stumbled onto the ">" construct in the command line which
makes it a breeze to send my PHP parsing output directly to a file and so
not have to mess with that mouse usage parameter or errant returns in my
data. Wow, y'can't argue w/success!


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