[GUIDE] MSDOS PROMPT.
This guide’s purpose is to show the basics to using the MSDOS prompt. It is that black window you occasionally get from executables. Some programs are strictly just this, thus, lacking a GUI.
While much of this is obsolete and easily doable on the Windows interface, you can still apply these commands and create “.BAT” files that can carry out a series of commands.
First and foremost, you can access the prompt by pressing the “WINDOWS key + R” > “cmd” > “OK“.
You will shortly get the window open.
Some commands that may be of use are the “cd“, “backup“, “ping“, “format“, and the list goes on. The first command is used to change directories, the second to backup a file, the third to ping a host/IP, and the last to format a specified drive.
One basic command is the “dir” which shows you the folders in the directory as well as how many there are in it.
dir
Another basic command is the “md” which allows you to create a folder/directory.
md lawl
Which creates a folder named lawl.
Some of the more advanced commands will require you to feed it several arguments before the command can follow through.
For instance, you can sometimes test your connection on a specific site or IP using “ping“.
ping blizzard.com
ping 127.0.0.1
You may also use the “ipconfig” command to do several things.
ipconfig [/? | /all | /release [adapter] | /renew [adapter] | /flushdns | /registerdns | /showclassid adapter | /setclassid adapter [classidtoset] ]
The above command will give a short description of your current internet settings which includes your private IP (if behind a router). The “ipconfig” command also comes with several arguments:
/all Display full configuration information.
/release Release the IP address for the specified adapter.
/renew Renew the IP address for the specified adapter.
/flushdns Purges the DNS Resolver cache.
/registerdns Refreshes all DHCP leases and re-registers DNS names
/displaydns Display the contents of the DNS Resolver Cache.
So how is this even useful? Well, sometimes you can create batch files which makes several tedious commands much simpler. Batch files are executed much like “.EXE” files but are not compiled through C++, VB, etc. Instead, they utilize MSDOS commands.
START AGTH\agth.exe /c /pnSD.exe /HW-20@30270:FILMEngine.gem:
The above code is what I use to run AGTH with School Days. This saves me the time of having to open up the prompt and then typing all that gibberish in before I can get AGTH hooked onto the process. I can save the above code as a batch file and run it with ease.
