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Yeah, XP doesn't require quotes for the CD command. Other commands does require it, however. But messing around with DOS is the least I'd recommend.

Quite the contrary -- I would recommend trying it, at least. The OP will probably end up doing it eventually, anyway, so why not start now? And it's not like it's not useful. I use the DOS prompt very extensively whenever I use Windows. Do you know how much faster "copy" is than CTRL-C-V, in Vista at least?

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Originally Posted by dwks

Hmm. It's also built-in, so I guess that makes sense. I guess I was getting confused because if you type "cd Docu<tab>" to go to Documents and Settings, for example, it tab-completes it with quotes and all.

I'm guessing it's an XP/Vista/maybe NT thing?

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Tab expansion is available in NT4 [perhaps also NT3.51] and onwards, although it wasn't enabled by default until, I think, XP (or perhaps 2K). For older versions, you have to edit the registry to set the expansion key enabling.

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Mats

And even in Vista, it's really messed up. The number of times I've typed something like "something -lots -of -flags" and then gone back and erased "something", in order to put another filename at the beginning. I press tab, and boom! The rest of the flags disappear.

But that's just most bash users will tell you. :)

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Originally Posted by dwks

Quite the contrary -- I would recommend trying it, at least. The OP will probably end up doing it eventually, anyway, so why not start now? And it's not like it's not useful. I use the DOS prompt very extensively whenever I use Windows. Do you know how much faster "copy" is than CTRL-C-V, in Vista at least?

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I don't use Vista and SP1 is supposedly to fix that and no, I never ever do file copying through cmd.
In fact, I never use cmd other than for tracert, ping and ipconfig, the utilities which lazy Microsoft never bothered to implement as GUI apps.

One of the reasons I like Far - simple directory structure navigation + always ready cmd prompt in the directory I'm looking at + simple copying into the commandline directories names from 2 pannels and/or file names (and of course build in Hex editor/viewer with the History easy available)... Ahhh... Where is too much I like in this program :)

And don't confuse the NT command prompt with DOS - the only real similarity is that the old commands still work, but everything [aside from actual legacy apps such as "debug"] is rewritten to 32-bit code, supports long filenames, most things support recursive directory work, etc, etc.

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And do not forget the black backgroud color :)

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Originally Posted by vart

One of the reasons I like Far - simple directory structure navigation + always ready cmd prompt in the directory I'm looking at + simple copying into the commandline directories names from 2 pannels and/or file names (and of course build in Hex editor/viewer with the History easy available)... Ahhh... Where is too much I like in this program :)

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What is 'Far'?

I'm guessing: http://www.helpware.net/FAR/aboutfar/aboutfar.htm
It's shareware, it looks like. 2 months free and all that.

Not exsactly - I'm talking about http://farmanager.com/?l=en