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  2. List of DOS commands - Wikipedia

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    IF is a conditional statement, that allows branching of the program execution. It evaluates the specified condition, and only if it is true, then it executes the remainder of the command line. Otherwise, it skips the remainder of the line and continues with next command line. Used in Batch files.

  3. Houston Automatic Spooling Priority - Wikipedia

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    HASP bypassed most operating system services with code specially tailored for efficiency. HASP operated as a single operating system task [1] and used cooperative multitasking internally to run processors to perform tasks such as running card readers, printers, and punches, managing the spool files, communicating with the system operator, and driving multiple communication lines for remote job ...

  4. Spooling - Wikipedia

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    A dedicated program, the spooler, maintains an orderly sequence of jobs for the peripheral and feeds it data at its own rate. Conversely, for slow input peripherals, such as a card reader , a spooler can maintain a sequence of computational jobs waiting for data, starting each job when all of the relevant input is available; see batch processing .

  5. cmd.exe - Wikipedia

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    Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, is the default command-line interpreter for the OS/2, [1] eComStation, ArcaOS, Microsoft Windows (Windows NT family and Windows CE family), and ReactOS [2] operating systems. On Windows CE .NET 4.2, [3] Windows CE 5.0 [4] and Windows Embedded CE 6.0 [5] it is referred to as the Command Processor ...

  6. Technical features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The XPS spooler format is the intended replacement for the Enhanced Metafile (EMF) format which is the print spooler format in the Graphics Device Interface (GDI) print path. [22] XPS is an XML -based (more specifically XAML -based) color-managed device and resolution independent vector-based paged document format which encapsulates an exact ...

  7. DOS/360 and successors - Wikipedia

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    By the late 1960s both IBM and aftermarket vendors began filling this void. IBM's spooler was an option called Priority Output Writers, Execution processors and input Readers (POWER), and Software Design, Inc., an independent software company, sold a spooler called GRASP.

  8. Magic SysRq key - Wikipedia

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    The key combination consists of Alt+SysRq and another key, which controls the command issued. SysRq may be released before pressing the command key, as long as Alt remains held down. The combinations always assume the QWERTY keyboard layout; [ citation needed ] for example, on the Dvorak keyboard layout , the combination to shut down the system ...

  9. Shutdown (computing) - Wikipedia

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    One commonly issued form of this command is shutdown -h now, which will shut down a system immediately. Another one is shutdown -r now to reboot. Another form allows the user to specify an exact time or a delay before shutdown: shutdown -h 20:00 will turn the computer off at 8:00 PM, and shutdown -r +1 will automatically reboot the machine in ...