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Retro Progamming: Top 10 DOS Commands

Someone today asked me about a DOS command. So for all 17 DOS users still out there, I thought I'd throw in a lunchtime oldschool DOS Top 10 list. I struggled a bit with the placement of PAUSE. I was tempted to place it 8th, but @ isn't as exciting.  It was also a tough battle between the 5-6 spots.  Arguably FOR has the edge with its iterative power.  Clearly SHIFT holds down the last spot, just a truely worthless command. Nothing messes up the clear, procedural style of a well-layed out .bat file like SHIFT.  I hate SHIFT.
  1. GOTO
  2. ECHO
  3. CALL
  4. CHOICE
  5. FOR
  6. IF
  7. PAUSE
  8. @
  9. REM
  10. SHIFT
Posted: Mar 08 2006, 12:32 PM by kmarshall | with 1 comment(s)

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shughes said:

Dredging the barrel a bit Kevin? <g>
# March 8, 2006 4:46 PM
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