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by d.h. cesare

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Using XP Home, how do you get a DOS window to come up? I tried running "nslookup" from the Start>Run window, but the little black window that popped up, disappeared right away. Then I tried running a PING from that RUN window and the same thing happened. The little DOS window popped up and then disappeared. How do I get that little DOS window to stay up there til I'm finished with it?
Thanx

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by Member 25348569

Watch for that one. Start | Run | Command will get you the DOS command Interpreter with 8.3 filename contractions in paths and other retrictions. Start | Run | CMD gets you the XP Command Interpreter.

by d.h. cesare

CMD is the one I want, I guess. COMMAND doesn't allow you to "paste" into the window and it doesn't want to shut down properly. Says Windows cannot end this program, etc.
I don't understand why Windows would have both, but there's a lot about Windows I don't understand.
Thanx for the CMD.

by porkepig14

I have Windows XP Home edition and when i go to start menu>Run i tpye in "cmd" (no quotes) the dos prompt comes up for a second and then closes out while if I type "Command" the prompt will come up and stay up. This is goes the same if i'm in safe mode or not.

by w2ktechman

maybe the cmd.exe file needs replacing. cmd is really the only one I use, as I rarely need the actual DOS command window.

But I usually explain it o others as 'he dos window' cause it looks similar.

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