reactos/base/shell/cmd/readme.txt

ReactOS command line interpreter CMD
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The ReactOS command line interpreter CMD is derived from FreeCOM, the
FreeDOS command line interpreter.

We are shooting mainly to be just like 2000/XP cmd.exe.  They are very close and only a small number(none that i can recall off the top of my head, so maybe 0) differences have been found between those two.  It has been reported that ROS cmd.exe does not work on nt4 because of a missing api.  I'm hoping to fix this at some point.


Compiling
~~~~~~~~~
ROS cmd used to depend on __REACTOS__ to provide two different ways to build cmd.  There is still code left in it for this but...  The __REACTOS__ = 0 has not been develped, maintained.  And therefore it does not even compile anymore.  __REACTOS__ = 1 works fine on both windows(nt). and someday i plan to remove all the __REACTOS__ = 0.

Using rbuild you can compile cmd separately by "make cmd_install".  Also you can compile cmd using MSVC 6 and soon 7/8 hopefully.


Current Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 - environment handling with prompt and path support.
 - directory utilities.
 - command-line history with doskey-like features.
 - batch file processing.
 - input/output redirection and piping.
 - alias support.
 - filename completion (use TAB), both Bash and Windows-CMD style.


Credits
~~~~~~~
FreeDOS developers:
   normat@rpi.edu (Tim Norman)
   mrains@apanix.apana.org.au (Matt Rains)
   ejeffrey@iastate.edu (Evan Jeffrey)
   Steffen.Kaiser@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Steffen Kaiser)
   Svante Frey (sfrey@kuai.se)
   Oliver Mueller (ogmueller@t-online.de)
   Aaron Kaufman (morgan@remarque.berkeley.edu)
   Marc Desrochers (bitzero@hotmail.com)
   Rob Lake (rlake@cs.mun.ca)
   John P. Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>
   Hans B Pufal <hansp@digiweb.com>

ReactOS developers:
   Eric Kohl
   Emanuele Aliberti <ea@iol.it>
   Paolo Pantaleo <paolopan@freemail.it>
   Brandon Turner <turnerb7@msu.edu>


Bugs
~~~~
There are still many bugs ;)
Please report bugs to ReactOS team <ros-dev@reactos.org> or to JIRA at www.reactos.org
move explorer and cmd. Add a few .rbuild files svn path=/trunk/; revision=21019 2006-02-16 23:23:37 +00:00			`ReactOS command line interpreter CMD`
			`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

			`The ReactOS command line interpreter CMD is derived from FreeCOM, the`
			`FreeDOS command line interpreter.`

			`We are shooting mainly to be just like 2000/XP cmd.exe. They are very close and only a small number(none that i can recall off the top of my head, so maybe 0) differences have been found between those two. It has been reported that ROS cmd.exe does not work on nt4 because of a missing api. I'm hoping to fix this at some point.`


			`Compiling`
			`~~~~~~~~~`
			`ROS cmd used to depend on __REACTOS__ to provide two different ways to build cmd. There is still code left in it for this but... The __REACTOS__ = 0 has not been develped, maintained. And therefore it does not even compile anymore. __REACTOS__ = 1 works fine on both windows(nt). and someday i plan to remove all the __REACTOS__ = 0.`

[BASE] Spelling fixes by Josh Soref. CORE-12286 svn path=/trunk/; revision=73133 2016-11-05 14:55:55 +00:00			`Using rbuild you can compile cmd separately by "make cmd_install". Also you can compile cmd using MSVC 6 and soon 7/8 hopefully.`
move explorer and cmd. Add a few .rbuild files svn path=/trunk/; revision=21019 2006-02-16 23:23:37 +00:00

			`Current Features`
			`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
			`- environment handling with prompt and path support.`
			`- directory utilities.`
			`- command-line history with doskey-like features.`
			`- batch file processing.`
			`- input/output redirection and piping.`
			`- alias support.`
[CMD]: Documentation improvement: we actually support two types of filename completions, windows-cmd like (the default one), and "bash-style" one (that is available through a compile switch). I prefer calling it "bash-style" over "unix-style" because this style of completion looks like the one from the GNU ReadLine library, that is used by Bash, which is not exclusive to unix per se... svn path=/trunk/; revision=72998 2016-10-20 16:51:07 +00:00			`- filename completion (use TAB), both Bash and Windows-CMD style.`
move explorer and cmd. Add a few .rbuild files svn path=/trunk/; revision=21019 2006-02-16 23:23:37 +00:00

			`Credits`
			`~~~~~~~`
			`FreeDOS developers:`
			`normat@rpi.edu (Tim Norman)`
			`mrains@apanix.apana.org.au (Matt Rains)`
			`ejeffrey@iastate.edu (Evan Jeffrey)`
			`Steffen.Kaiser@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Steffen Kaiser)`
			`Svante Frey (sfrey@kuai.se)`
			`Oliver Mueller (ogmueller@t-online.de)`
			`Aaron Kaufman (morgan@remarque.berkeley.edu)`
			`Marc Desrochers (bitzero@hotmail.com)`
			`Rob Lake (rlake@cs.mun.ca)`
			`John P. Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>`
			`Hans B Pufal <hansp@digiweb.com>`

			`ReactOS developers:`
Remove outdated email address. svn path=/trunk/; revision=26923 2007-05-27 14:50:12 +00:00			`Eric Kohl`
move explorer and cmd. Add a few .rbuild files svn path=/trunk/; revision=21019 2006-02-16 23:23:37 +00:00			`Emanuele Aliberti <ea@iol.it>`
			`Paolo Pantaleo <paolopan@freemail.it>`
			`Brandon Turner <turnerb7@msu.edu>`


			`Bugs`
			`~~~~`
[CMD] Fix some whitespace and misspellings (part 1/x) svn path=/trunk/; revision=59377 2013-06-29 23:18:27 +00:00			`There are still many bugs ;)`
"bugzilla" --> Jira svn path=/trunk/; revision=59150 2013-06-02 18:44:50 +00:00			`Please report bugs to ReactOS team <ros-dev@reactos.org> or to JIRA at www.reactos.org`