python 2.7.12 on Linux behaving differently than on Windows

[Nathan Ernst]

Ifyou're running on Windows 10, at least, you can soon purge that memory.
command.com doesn't exist (may never have existed on Win2k, XP, Vista, 7,
8, 8.1 or 10). If I try and run either "command" or "command.com" from
Win10, both say command cannot be found.

IIRC, command.com was a relic of Win9x running on top of DOS and was a
16-bit executable, so inherently crippled (and probably never support by
the NT kernel). Whereby cmd.exe coexisted but ran in a 32-bit context.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info>
wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 10:09 am, eryk sun wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Steve D'Aprano
> > <steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> >>
> >> You've never used cmd.com or command.exe? "The DOS prompt"?
> >
> > The default Windows shell is "cmd.exe", and it's informally called the
> > "Command Prompt",
>
> Thanks for the correction, I always mix up cmd/command . exe/com. I fear
> this won't be the last time either -- I wish there was a good mnemonic for
> which is which.
>
>
>
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> enough, things got worse.
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