![]() There is a paragraph or two of text output when you enter the command name followed by a /?. No HTTP or FTP file access for internal commands. 25+ years into the Internet era, and CMD’s Internet-capable commands consist of … nothing.Just don’t try anything other than the most basic command alias. Want to go back a page, search, scroll up and down? You can’t. If you want to display a page at a time, pipe to MORE. All of those internal CMD and Windows settings you’d like to query? Not from CMD. Variables in CMD consist of the environment variables and a total of 6 internal variables.Filename completion is crude and non-programmable.Command line editing in CMD is (extremely) simplistic.No syntax coloring, different colors for input and output, errors, colorized directories. CMD can set its foreground and background colors, and … nothing else.There’s no way to create plugins to extend CMD your only choice is writing new external apps.There are a handful of switches you can specify on the startup line, and that’s it. CMD has (almost) no configuration options.That’s only a couple more than CMD had in Windows NT 3.1 25 years ago. CMD in Windows 10 has about 40 internal commands.What’s wrong with CMD and the Windows Command Prompt?
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