Before we even get started with this topic, let me acknowledge all of you readers out there who are wondering why I didn’t call this week’s column “Shoving Technology Backwards”. Granted, few of us ...

Two weeks ago, in this column, we looked at some macros and DOS commands that can make your time at the DOS command prompt more like the Unix environment that most of us know and love. In this week’s ...

I'm looking for Linux command line utilities that have been ported to MS-DOS. I've been using the WGET port for awhile now and I'm hungry for more. I do have a Linux box but I want to bring more of ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

I need to write a batch file in XP. %99 of my career has been on some flavor of UNIX. You're going to need to give a bit more context. %~nxi would give you the name ("n") and extension ("x") of the ...