[ale] OT: Stupid Windows Trick

[Jeff Lightner]

A lot of the TCP/IP stuff has been um... borrowed in Windoze.   I've
heard (but can't confirm) that in fact the Windoze telnet originally had
GNU comments in it even though M$ had claimed it was their own.

Some other commands that work at the DOS command prompt:
netstat, route, ping, nslookup, telnet and ftp.   

There are probably others.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of H.
To: ale at ale.org
A. Story
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:18 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Stupid Windows Trick

Sorry I turned of quoting.

But I just got a laugh at of the response and had to think well, if you 
broadcast a query for localhost on the network.  Damn near everyone will

answer.    And thanks for the link.   I didn't know about the hostname 
command in windows.  Wonder how many other commands are copied.   I have

been doing echo %computername%  for years.

Adrin

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