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Why DOS is Even Better with Windows 2000
Windows 2000 has a nice TITLE command whereby I can type
TITLE a descriptive title here
at a DOS prompt, and suddenly the window’s title changes to what I specify! No more looking on the taskbar guessing for which prompt I need to access; the DOS prompt titles are now as descriptive as any other application’s titles.
CD Around the Drive
Windows 95 brought long filenames into the mainstream Windows world (yes, there were software packages that brought long filenames into the Windows 3.1 world, but I did say *mainstream*). Unfortunately, if you’ve ever dealt with running the “CD” (change directory) command to change directories, you’ll run into two big problems thanks to long filenames.
1. Filenames with spaces require being prefixed and suffixed with a quotation mark. Else, DOS just spits out “Bad Command or Filename” until you are blue in the face.
2. Long filenames take a real, real long time to type. And most people don’t like to do a lot of typing.
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