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"Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> writes:

> Vincent Belaïche <vincent.belaiche@gmail.com> schrieb im Beitrag
> <80d3dzctch.fsf@gmail.com>...
>> ...that I used to
>> launch some MSDOS script before, but MSDOS seems less futureproof.
>
> It depends on what you are talking about:
> - MS-DOS as an operating system has already lost its future a longer time
> ago now.
> - But presumably you are talking about the command line of Windows XP and
> later versions of Windows which is _not_ the operating system MS-DOS but
> simply a command shell which consist of a console (without graphical user
> interface) with a command line and a command interpreter which supports
> certain DOS-like commands. There is no reason to think that this one has no
> future.

Yes, I was not referring to command.com, but to cmd.exe, the command
line shell.

I do not think that cmd.exe will suddenly disappear, however I don't
think that it will get any new features and evolve. Anyhow VBS is more
flexible and easy to use, even though the syntax is less concise.

  Vincent