Hi back: suggest you start
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Basically, you're correct. From Windows ME on, DOS has been a sub-system. So, you can run some of the useful DOS programs that you used to. But you quickly get the idea that there are two flavours to this when, working at the Command Prompt, the Paths and File Names revert to the old 8.3 character format.
This really adds to the interest.
I'm finding it less than easy to work across the Network at the Command Prompt in order to run scheduled batch files for synchronisation purposes. So if anyone has any ideas on this....