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    ISSUE 20.29 • 2023-07-17

    WINDOWS

    Bruce Kriebel

    By Bruce Kriebel

    For nearly 50 years, we’ve all been using the commands that originated from MS-DOS command line interpreter (CLI).

    This wasn’t a bad thing. Even when Windows came along, Microsoft provided a means to get to the CLI (the program cmd.exe) and continued to flesh out its capabilities. I’ll bet nearly everyone reading this has written a simple batch file using those commands.

    But there’s a better alternative.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.29.0, 2023-07-17).
    This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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