There is nothing substantially different until you get to the NT-based OSes.
Then it's CMD.

"JOE" <ANDORBUTNOTME@copper.net> wrote in message
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> COMMAND.COM  was the command interperter for MS.DOS 16bit programs
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> whats the COMMAND.COM  equivalent for a win32  MS.WIN98 program?
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