Talk:Recovery Console

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Not all Windows commands are Win32 programs...

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(However, they are not identical. The normal Windows commands are Win32 programs, which are incapable of running in the environment that the Recovery Console executes in, where no Win32 subsystem is present.)

Some are built-in in the command processor and don't exist as separate Win32 programs. This situation is inherited from DOS, which also differentiated between built-in and external commands. On older systems, where you only had just one floppy drive, you could boot from the DOS bootdisk and then after inserting a different disk, e.g. containing your documents or a game, you could still use all the built-in commands. The external commands however, where unavailable unless you were prepared to sacrifice some RAM for a RAM-disk and copy the external commands there on boot. Shinobu (talk) 06:01, 3 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Not all Windows commands are Win32 programs...