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bat files explained... using a bat file is just like typing a bunch of stuff into the command prompt...

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what is the command prompt? it's not just a legacy command line interface it is integrated into the windows api itself whenever application developers implicitly use its functions the user's hard drives are mappped to the driveletters C:\ the cd-rom drive would have, in the past, been D:\ these driveletters are the top level locations for directory paths a directory path is something like C:\music\blues\ technically, C:\music\blues\ and C:\music\blues have a different meaning without the \ at the end, c:\music\blues refers specifically to the directory itself c:\music\blues\ refers to the contents of the c:\music\blues directory in this case, the music folder or directory lives on C:\ and contains another folder or directory named blues. sometimes there are network paths or different aliased paths which dont really exist... ignoring network paths for now, lets talk about aliased paths as well as "Windows Explorer" "Windows Explorer" is somet

what is bat scripting? what are batch files or bat files?

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you might have heard of batch files or .bat files these files have the extension .bat and were first conceived of by microsoft early on in dos random files such as autoexec.cfg or system.cfg or things like these were run using the same system command syntax which includes operant functionwords such as cd dir del here are some example images related to the previously mentioned autoexec and system files where appropriate, all rights are given to the original image creators.  by the way, did you know... when right clicking on images and selecting copy image, if you paste it into a blogspot editing window set to compose, it will create html code such as <img alt="Image result for autoexec dos" src="https://techpubs.jurassic.nl/manuals/0530/enduser/SWin_UG/sgi_html/figures/56a.rundosedit.gif" /></div> <img alt="Image result for autoexec dos" src="http://legacy.3drealms.com/images/multi2.jpg" /></div>