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1ReactOS command line interpreter CMD
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4The ReactOS command line interpreter CMD is derived from FreeCOM, the
5FreeDOS command line interpreter.
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7We are shooting mainly to be just like 2000/XP cmd.exe.  They are very close and only a small number(none that i can recall off the top of my head, so maybe 0) differences have been found between those two.  It has been reported that ROS cmd.exe does not work on nt4 because of a missing api.  I'm hoping to fix this at some point.
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10Compiling
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12ROS cmd used to depend on __REACTOS__ to provide two different ways to build cmd.  There is still code left in it for this but...  The __REACTOS__ = 0 has not been develped, maintained.  And therefore it does not even compile anymore.  __REACTOS__ = 1 works fine on both windows(nt). and someday i plan to remove all the __REACTOS__ = 0.
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14Using rbuild you can compile cmd separately by "make cmd_install".  Also you can compile cmd using MSVC 6 and soon 7/8 hopefully.
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17Current Features
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19 - environment handling with prompt and path support.
20 - directory utilities.
21 - command-line history with doskey-like features.
22 - batch file processing.
23 - input/output redirection and piping.
24 - alias support.
25 - filename completion (use TAB), both Bash and Windows-CMD style.
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28Credits
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30FreeDOS developers:
31   normat@rpi.edu (Tim Norman)
32   mrains@apanix.apana.org.au (Matt Rains)
33   ejeffrey@iastate.edu (Evan Jeffrey)
34   Steffen.Kaiser@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Steffen Kaiser)
35   Svante Frey (sfrey@kuai.se)
36   Oliver Mueller (ogmueller@t-online.de)
37   Aaron Kaufman (morgan@remarque.berkeley.edu)
38   Marc Desrochers (bitzero@hotmail.com)
39   Rob Lake (rlake@cs.mun.ca)
40   John P. Price <linux-guru@gcfl.net>
41   Hans B Pufal <hansp@digiweb.com>
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43ReactOS developers:
44   Eric Kohl
45   Emanuele Aliberti <ea@iol.it>
46   Paolo Pantaleo <paolopan@freemail.it>
47   Brandon Turner <turnerb7@msu.edu>
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50Bugs
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52There are still many bugs ;)
53Please report bugs to ReactOS team <ros-dev@reactos.org> or to JIRA at www.reactos.org
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