The Command Line

CMD.EXE displays a [c:\] prompt when it is waiting for you to enter a 
command.  (The actual text depends on the current drive and directory as 
well as your PROMPT settings.)  This is called the command line and the 
prompt is asking you to enter a command, an alias or batch file name, or 
the instructions necessary to begin an application program. 

This section explains the features that will help you while you are typing 
in commands, and how keystrokes are interpreted when you enter them at the 
command line.  The keystrokes discussed here are the ones normally used by 
CMD.EXE.  If you prefer using different keystrokes to perform these 
functions, you can assign new ones with key mapping directives in CMD.INI. 

The command line features documented in this section are: 

            Command-Line Editing 
            Command History and Recall 
            Command History Window 
            Command Names and Parameters 
            Filename Completion 
            Automatic Directory Changes 
            Directory History Window 
            Multiple Commands 
            Expanding and Disabling Aliases 
            Command-Line Length Limits 
 
 

 Additional command-line features are documented under File Selection and 
 Other Features.