After deleting cmd.exe or setting permissions, it was found that command.exe became "invalid" and there was no response when typing commands. This is the case for XP, 2K, and 2K3 systems~! Could it be that command depends on cmd?
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Posted 2009-04-05 10:19 · 中国 广东 汕头 电信
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Posted 2009-04-05 11:49 · 中国 湖北 荆州 洪湖市 电信
Hearing you say that, it seems so. I haven't tried it
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Posted 2009-04-06 00:32 · 中国 北京 联通
It can be understood that Cmd.exe provides a most basic environment.
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Posted 2009-04-10 03:51 · 中国 山西 电信
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Shouldn't be like this.
The command is just an entry to a sub-environment of ntvdm.
There's no necessary connection with cmd.
If ntvdm.exe is gone, the command will prompt that command is not found.
The command is just an entry to a sub-environment of ntvdm.
There's no necessary connection with cmd.
If ntvdm.exe is gone, the command will prompt that command is not found.
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Posted 2009-04-12 18:07 · 中国 广东 潮州 电信
Originally posted by qzwqzw at 2009-4-10 03:51:
It shouldn't be like this
command is just an entry point of a sub-environment of ntvdm
There is no necessary connection with cmd
If ntvdm.exe is gone
command will prompt that command is not found
Really is like this! If you don't believe it, you can check it on your own computer!
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Posted 2009-04-13 07:34 · 德国 马克斯-普朗克等离子物理研究所
That's right. The DOS emulators and OS/2 emulators in the NT environment both need the cmd.exe command-line interpreter.
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Posted 2009-04-19 12:17 · 中国 山西 电信
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Well, some strange places were found
Originally, I only tested that being able to open command.com was considered to work normally
It was found that many commands did not execute and output
Currently, the acceptable and executable commands tested are:
Drive letter jump c: d: e: and so on
Path jump cd
Prompt display and modification prompt
(And using prompt $t can get the system time)
Environment exit exit
Environment variable operation set
Originally, I only tested that being able to open command.com was considered to work normally
It was found that many commands did not execute and output
Currently, the acceptable and executable commands tested are:
Drive letter jump c: d: e: and so on
Path jump cd
Prompt display and modification prompt
(And using prompt $t can get the system time)
Environment exit exit
Environment variable operation set
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Through the tracking of procmon, it can be confirmed that ntvdm.exe does call cmd.exe to implement some command-line functions, including dir, cls, etc., and it is called using a very traditional interface. C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c DIR. But there are no such calls for commands like cd, prompt, etc.
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Posted 2009-10-11 19:00 · 中国 湖北 天门 电信
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