Command prompt in Vista and XP

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Does anyone know if there is much difference between the two?
Is the terminal in Vista less powerful/have less features?

A friends has been told they need a laptop with a serial port to talk to some automotive equipment that must be done using XP - AT commands perhaps?

Thanks

Simon

 

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Are you reffering to the CMD.exe? With serial connections I think off telnet instead. Or hyper terminal. By default the telnet client is not installed on Vista, but can be added by the "add and remove programs" equivalent (using a dutch version here).

 

I believe I've seem some talk of the CMD shell being extended in Vista. But this isn't what you are really asking. When running a terminal program or Telnet then the CMD console isn't involved.

Depends on what is being done here. And I doubt severely that Vista won't run such programs.

You need to find out whether the serial port is being used for a TTY, or whether PPP+TCP/IP is being run over it.

In the automotive world there is a protocol known as CAN. If this is what he is after then a TTY program will handle it well - like Hyperterm. (Or it used to - I haven't used it for ages!)

Harry.

 

Also Hyperterminal is no longer installed in Vista. Unlike Telnet it is not an optional install either.

 

I had forgotten that. But Hyperterm is still available for personal use from the original makers here.

Harry.

 

Thanks for the input guy's

I found out that the hardware must connect via the serial port and hyperterminal is used to talk with the equipment at the other end. Considering *most* laptops no longer come with a serial port, I am assuming a USB > Serial won't cause any further problems?

Simon

 

The only thing I came across regarding the cmd.exe is that in vista unless you are logged in as literally "administrator" you will have to do a run as from the system32 folder to have the admin rights.

 

I used a Belkin USB-Serial adapter to configure Cisco and Foundry equipment without any problems. Worked like a champ.

I believe the Dell Latitude laptops still have serial ports.

 

Interesting.. i was wondering how to elevate my privilages at the command prompt.. thanks for the heads up

 

You are welcome.

At first I was login in as administrator to have the full rights but then I remembered the run as feature. Plus reading the whole new features of vista security made a lot of sense after.