Windows Command Prompt

I thought I would start at the very beginning. In my library are a couple books on scripting for Microsoft Windows. And at least one of these books emphasizes that you should not overlook the Windows command prompt. There are a number of commands available that have their origins in the Microsoft MS-DOS world. Typing "help" at the Windows command prompt provides you with basic information on the following commands. Note that all this stuff is most likely copyright Microsoft.

• ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD CHCP
• CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMP
• COMPACT CONVERT COPY DATE DEL DIR DISKCOMP
• DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO ENDLOCAL ERASE EXIT
• FC FIND FINDSTR FOR FORMAT FTYPE GOTO
• GRAFTABL HELP IF LABEL MD MKDIR MODE MORE
• MOVE PATH PAUSE POPD PRINT PROMPT PUSHD
• RD RECOVER REM REN RENAME REPLACE RMDIR
• SET SETLOCAL SHIFT SORT START SUBST TIME
• TITLE TREE TYPE VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY

If you have ever done any DOS batch programming, these will look very familiar. I intend to review a couple of these command to remind how useful some of them can be.