command.com

[nosidius]

as it is, few people know about "command.com", and i myself know very little about it even though i am a windows nubler (not nub, there's a difference between the 2, it means i have no life in regards to the topic)

here's what i DO know:
command.com is shell script instead of CMD, which is built into windows seperately
.com's are all shell scripts, so you run them as a program more than a file

0.0 thats it, please add to it if you can, as it is i'm not entirely sure what the running difference is between a com, and a bat, and i don't want to kill my computer............ shells can be quite nasty 0.0

[the13ghost2]

well *.com files are just another type of executables, command.com was the original cmd.exe before moving to 32bit Ithink so command.com isnt a shell script , it is the shell, the shell script equivalent in windows would be a *bat file

[vandalize]

ya command.com is DOS very good tool I like using it

Edit: its what you use when your school disabled CMD

[Andomis]

As stated:

*.bat files are just a set of command lines saved to a text file for execution at a later time.

*.com files are the equivilant to .exe files.

To oversimplify: a .COM file is a direct image of how the program will
look in main memory, and a .EXE file will undergo some further
relocation when it is run (and so it begins with a relocation header). A
.COM file is limited to 64K for all segments combined, but a .EXE file
can have as many segments as your linker will handle and be as large as
RAM can take.

The actual file extension doesn't matter. DOS knows that a file being
loaded is in .EXE format if its first two bytes are MZ or ZM; otherwise
it is assumed to be in .COM format. For instance, DR-DOS 6.0's
COMMAND.COM is in .EXE format as is COMMAND.COM in recent versions of
MS-DOS. -www.faq.com

In Vista, command.com and cmd.exe are the same file, and the base DOS commands are just implimented into the command prompt. (As it appears, I could be mistaken.)

If you show more interest in this kind of topic, I would suggest researching:
-Windows PowerShell (Optional replacement for cmd.exe in newer OS's)
-CScript

Alive,
Andomis