My point is a dos prompt is substantially different from the windows prompt in a way not at all analogous to Kleenex vs Puffs.
A Band-aid is a kind of adhesive bandage. DOS is not a kind of shell - it's an operating system.
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--- In Crestron@..., Geoffrey Reynolds <greynlds@...> wrote:
The point is "DOS Prompt" is commonly used these days as the general name
just like Xerox or Kleenex by lots of people. Just about every developer I
know still calls it the DOS Prompt and everyone knows that it's really the
Windows Command Prompt.
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Anthony Desimone <
anthony_desimone@...> wrote:
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Well, sorry for the pedantry, but I know someone who tends to constantly
use the wrong name for things (not a generic descriptor like Xerox or
Kleenex). It gets confusing and we're really in an industry where
specificity counts.
--- In Crestron@..., Geoffrey Reynolds wrote:
Ugh. I don't think I'm all that old - I was just being a bit facetious.
And I realize it's not DOS anymore. Nor is the Xerox machine at the
office
actually made by Xerox :).
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Anthony Desimone <
anthony_desimone@> wrote:
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I don't think you need to be old to remember it. The DOS prompt was
there
for a while when I started using computers. But it's not DOS anymore.
--- In Crestron@..., Geoffrey Reynolds wrote:
Yeah, it's pretty common for us old timers to refer to the Command
Prompt
in the new OS's as a DOS Prompt.
Geoff
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Chris Niles
wrote:
DOS prompt == Windows Command Prompt
Sometimes I slip and call it that too.
Chris
On Mar 5, 2013 4:34 PM, "Anthony Desimone" <
anthony_desimone@>
wrote:
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In addition to what Neil said, DOS doesn't ship with windows
anymore, and
almost nothing with computers "just works".
--- In Crestron@..., Neil Dorin wrote:
DOS....?
It mostly has to do with there being a valid DNS/gateway
service
on the
subnet where your equipment resides. There has to be something
to
translate the hostname into an actual IP address. If you're
just
plugging
a bunch of gear into a switch, there may be nothing to resolve
a
hostname
for you.
What OS are you running?
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:30 PM, jbudz1977 wrote:
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Why can't I just type ping (hostname) in my dos prompt and
have
it
respond? How come sometimes toolbox lets me connect by
hostname
and
other
times not so much? Why do I get a pop up every time I open
toolbox
saying
it adjusted some settings to let me connect by hostname? With
computers it
just works, why not with Crestrons?
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