This post is already gathering dust, but what the hell.
I use it occasionally. What I do on it is test connections, for instance, if I'm having trouble with email I'll bring up the command line to pin point where in the heirarchy things are going awry, is it the email program or configuration, if so I'll be able to connect at the command line, if I'm not able to connect at the command line and I know there to be no trouble with the server, then the fault lies in the user's connection, ISP or intermediate. So yeah its useful for troubleshooting and tech support.

I've used it to compile C#.

I feel the command line is still a useful tool, its real nuts and bolts stuff the basics! What I have done on the command line has been trial and error, or I'll have a loose idea of how to pass the arguments.. I would appreciate a reference on it personally! Still useful from a programming standpoint, a programmer designing an application to call on the command line would still need a reference.

I think a reference would be a good idea, but perhaps bundled with something else useful and current, like compiling .NET applications from the command line, for those of us too poor to afford Visual Basic! And include the rest of it as a reference.

: )
Rich

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