Command Prompt and Turing

[Hackmaster]

This is one for those Turing vets out there...

I need to interact with the windows command prompt for a programming challenge. (A friend threw down... he is gonna get destroyed) This is just for the extra icing on the cake, but the challenge consists of creating PGM graphics using any language we want... I was debating between turing and C, but I haven't used C for a while, and I think I will probably be rusty.

The thing I need to learn about is the command prompt. are there commands, libraries, anything? I really don't know what I should do about that... so, does anybody know anything about this? has anyone fooled around enough with it? Is this just standard practice that i'm missing out on? all valid questions, hopefully answered by you guys here at compsci.

thanks!

[uberwalla]

ok well i do not know all about them but there is a tut somewhere for the DIR commands and File commands. also u could use Sys.Exec to run programs and sites.

[JakeP]

You need to be more specific. You can not make your turing application run *in* the does prompt like a C app, if that's what you mean.

[uberwalla]

yea u do got a point. the commands i referenced are used through command prompt database but do not actually open it up and use its window.