Re: pythonw.exe

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Date	2011-08-14 16:52 +0100
Subject	Re: pythonw.exe
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.2277.1313337128.1164.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> BTW, unless you're using Windows 95/98/ME, you don't have a
> "DOS Prompt". The command prompt in Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 isn't DOS.
>

I don't see this as any sloppier than referring to "opening a
<whatever> prompt" when you mean "opening up a windowed command
interpreter". The command interpreter in NT+ uses an interface that
derives from the original DOS command interpreter, and a lot of people
consider it to be as primitive (not realising that it has a lot of
features, eg tab completion, that are WAY better even than
command+doskey); it's a lot closer to Unix's bash than to MS-DOS's
command. (I do prefer bash, though.)

ChrisA

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pythonw.exe Ronald Reynolds <ron@bumpker.com> - 2011-08-14 06:23 -0700
  Re: pythonw.exe Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2011-08-14 15:50 +0200
  Re: pythonw.exe Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-14 15:30 +0100
    Re: pythonw.exe Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 16:52 +0100
      Re: pythonw.exe Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> - 2011-08-14 21:59 +0200
        Re: pythonw.exe harrismh777 <harmar@member.fsf.org> - 2011-08-14 15:20 -0500
          Re: pythonw.exe Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 21:28 +0100
            Re: pythonw.exe Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-08-14 22:27 +0000
          Re: pythonw.exe Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-08-14 19:14 -0700
          Re: pythonw.exe Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-15 09:32 +0100
    Re: pythonw.exe Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-08-14 20:49 -0400

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