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- COMMAND.COM
-
- This program almost is DOS, since it is the program that responds to keyboard
- commands. Whenever you type something after a prompt and hit the Return, Enter,
- or <──┘ key, the COMMAND.COM program will do something. Internal commands of
- DOS and BATCH file commands will be handled by COMMAND.COM. External commands
- of DOS will be handled by separate programs that come with DOS. If you enter
- the name of a separately purchased program, like LOTUS, COMMAND.COM will find
- it in a directory listed in the PATH environment variable, and tell it to
- respond to your keyboard commands, until it terminates. Then COMMAND.COM will
- resume the task of responding to keyboard commands.
-
- [COMMAND.COM is also present in OS/2 but CMD.EXE should be used instead.]
-
- For information on explicit use of the COMMAND.COM program, leave the NEW_TERMS
- topic (by pressing the Return, Enter, or <──┘ key at the "NEW_TERMS Topic?"
- prompt) and then request information on the COMMAND topic.