New Features in Version 6.4

• New dynamic environment variables that are instantiated at run time. See Batch Files for more information.
  
  
• New internal batch commands, including :-
  
  
  • Text string commands :-
    
    
    1. COMMA - insert commas into a number.
    2. STRPAD - pad a string with spaces.
    
    
  • File manipulation commands :-
    
    
    1. READLN - get a line of text from a file.
    2. FILESIZE - get the size of a file.
    3. FILEDATE - get the date of a file.
    4. FILETIME - get the time of a file.
    5. FILETYPE - get the type of a file (ie. TEXT or BINARY).
    
    
  • Initialisation file commands :-
    
    
    1. SETINI - set or delete a key value from an initialisation file.
    2. GETINI - get a key value from an initialisation file.
    
    
  • Date commands :-
    
    
    1. DATE2SER - convert a date to a serial date value.
    2. SER2DATE - convert a serial date value to a date.
    
    
• Additional FOR syntax to loop through a range of numbers :-
  
  

FOR %variable IS num1 TO num2 [STEP num3] DO command

• New /N switch for command COPY, MOVE, SCOPY and SMOVE which will convert files with long file names to their equivalent short file names.
  
  
• Many new switches for command DIR, including G, N, E, D, T, C, W, B, J, F, V.
  
  
• New mail support which displays "You have new mail" when enabled and there is new unread mail waiting in your incoming mail box.
  
  
• New pop-up history list window which contains your complete command history. The history window is displayed using the HISTORY command.
  
  
• New /C switch for working with Common Program Manager groups. The default behaviour of command GROUP is to work with Private Program Manager groups.
  
  
• The WinOne® Command Prompt will automatically look for a STARTUP.BAT batch file in the same directory in which the WinOne® Command Prompt is installed and if found the WinOne® Command Prompt will execute it on start up.
  
  
• The WinOne® Command Prompt can now be set as the default startup shell replacing the Program Manager. The default startup shell can be set with the internal command SHELL.
  
  
• The WinOne® Command Prompt can now be set to capture the input and output of Win32 console programs that use streamable input/output. See the CAPTURE command for more information.
  
  
• The Attributes option in the system menu contains a new Run option which can set or reset the default behaviour of programs that are run from the command prompt. See Program Run Options for more information
  
  
• Improved the help file which now includes information that was considered "assumed knowledge". These additions document features that have always been included in the WinOne® Command Prompt and they do not necessarily represent new features, unless stated above.