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get filename without extension in BAT (Users)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 04.05.2023, 17:57

> > > That is NT's CMD.EXE, not DOS' COMMAND.COM.
> >
> > I have already understood that DOS COMMAND.COM cannot do this without
> > third-party tools. For some reason, some sites wrote that it works in
> > DOS...
>
> Yeah...
> I have noticed that many WinAddicts refer to the NTVDM
> as being DOS, but it is of-course _NOT_ DOS.

NTVDM is a virtual machine running a DOS, which happens to be specific to NTVDM and not fully compatible to other DOSes. However, cmd.exe is an MSWindows program shell - it isn't NTVDM. (And NTVDM was only bundled with 32-bit MSW NT releases, whereas cmd.exe runs on all MSW NT.)

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