The Command Prompt

If you're using the DOS/CMD command line environment sometimes, the Command Prompt can come in as a handy tool. Using this tool you can run DOS/CMD commands in a specific directory. Probe spawns the command in a separate thread, and the output appears in a DOS/CMD box. When the command has finished, the window waits for a key press, and then closes.

The idea behind the Probe Command Prompt is to have access to the command line, but only take the screen area needed by a DOS/CMD box when a command is actually run.

See also: Reference manual, The Command Prompt.

Fig 1: The Probe Command Prompt

The Command Prompt is used together with the Folder Browser. When you're active in a Folder Browser, you either click in the Command Prompt combo, or press Ctrl-D to get there. Now, after editing your command, or finding it in the history buffer, you press 'Enter' and the command is executed.

Fig 2: Executing a DOS/CMD command, and it's output

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