Does anyone know what the purpose of Command Prompt is? I cant seem to figure it out. I tried looking it up online, but they gave me big fancy technological terms. If you could, could you dumb it down for me? 
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Re: Command Prompt
The command prompt allows you to run programs from the comand line. Some programs need arguements to run, and those are hard to do with the Windows GUI (Graphical User Interface). Also, some programs don't even have a GUI, so they need to be run from the command prompt to even be seen. Also, many batch actions are much faster when run from a command line than through use of a GUI.
In operating systems without a GUI, all that is used is a command prompt. Anyone who grew up with DOS would be very familar with it.
In most, if not all, forms of Linux, a command prompt can and is used for almost everything, and allows complete control over your computer. There also is an autocomplete function in the versions of Linux I've used, making the command prompt even faster.
Although, if you have to ask, you probably don't need to use the command prompt, unless you're that person I recomended that file transfer program in which case you need to use it. If you know where your file is and you're a good typer, the command prompt will speed up your computing time.
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Re: Command Prompt
Yeah in windows it has become pretty much useless every since they got rid of DOS all together. Though it can still be used as a quick way to get info on your ip address (type ipconfig /all), and when used in DOS is the only way to truly delete your IE temporary internet files (yeah it says it deletes then, but next time you reboot goto that folder and explore it and you will see it's all back, it's kind of like magic and kind of like spyware). It's also useful for programming especially for those who aren't too fond of using an IDE and prefer to just use a code editor and comlile their programs themselves.
As slowpoke said it is much more widely used in UNIX machines, as some versions of unix only use a command prompt, this is also normally the only way to interface with a remote computer like a server, though now even that is turning to a GUI as bandwidth keeps going up.
I wouldn't be surprised if the next version of windows tries to hide it from you all together. Though it has become a bit archaic, if you learn to use it well it is usually much more effecient at doing tasks than a graphical interface, though I don't think games will ever go back to it.
Here is a very short tutorial on it
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/foru...howtutorial=76
Of course you can also get a list of available commands by typing help in the command prompt and hitting enter.
And if your curious about the UNIX commands
http://www.emba.uvm.edu/CF/basic.htmlComment
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Re: Command Prompt
It's pretty much vital for Linux users. Most known as a "terminal".
In Mac OS X, it's pretty cool. Haven't messed around with it much, except to mess with my PHP and Apache settings.
Working with MySQL, and server operations, with SSH and all that jazz, it's pretty fun.
I doubt you'll need to get into it, especially on Windows.Comment
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