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JP Software Command Processor

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JP Software has developed six different command line tools, called "command processors". All six offer very similar sets of features designed to make your work easier and more productive at the command prompt and in batch files. All display a command prompt (e.g. C:\> or [C:\]), accept and execute the commands you type, and support batch files. And all of our products offer hundreds of command line and batch file enhancements over the default command processor that came with your computer or operating system.

Because all six products are essentially the same technology and offer almost exactly the same set of features, it may help you to have a little background on the differences between them. Those differences are in two primary categories: the type of command processor (text mode or GUI), and the platform or operating system it runs on.


Text Mode and GUI Command Processors
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Our command processors are divided into two types: three "Text Mode" products (4DOS, 4OS2, and 4NT) and three "Graphical User Interface" (GUI) products (Take Command/16, Take Command/32, and Take Command for OS/2).

A text mode command processor is the kind you are probably used to: It displays commands and their output in a fixed font, typically with 80 columns in a line and 25 lines on the screen (some systems allow you to increase the number of rows and columns to other fixed sizes). This type of command processor can start another text mode program, and the output of that program generally appears sequentially along with other command processor output, in the same window (if you are using a windowing system). An example of such an operation is running the popular utility PKZIP from a DOS prompt.

The standard DOS, OS/2, and Windows NT prompts are all examples of text mode command processors. If you use Microsoft Windows, the "MS-DOS prompt" icon on your desktop starts the text mode command processor for your operating system. If you use OS/2, the items in the default Command Prompts folder start the corresponding (OS/2 or DOS) text mode command processor.

A GUI command processor works very much like a text mode product, but runs in a GUI environment (e.g. Microsoft Windows or IBM OS/2), and has the "look and feel" appropriate to that environment. If you are familiar with Microsoft Windows, the easiest way to understand this concept is to imagine a program which displays a prompt and accepts all the standard DOS commands (COPY, DIR, etc.) like the "MS-DOS prompt", but which also looks and feels like a native Windows program with a menu bar, tool bar, status bar, resizable window, selectable fonts, and other GUI features.

When you use a GUI command processor you see output from built-in commands like DIR and COPY right in the command processor window, as you'd expect. You also have full access to all GUI applications, each of which runs in its own window. However text mode programs (for example, utilities like PKZIP, or full-screen applications like DOS word processors) are not written to operate in the GUI environment and must be run in a separate text mode window. The output from such programs is displayed in that window, and can sometimes be captured and redisplayed in the command processor's GUI window if the program allows it (our GUI command processors offer both options).

To summarize the practical difference between these two approaches, text mode command processors are best at handling text mode programs, and are less convenient (in both their "look and feel" and the functions they offer) for managing GUI programs and the GUI environment. GUI command processors excel at managing the GUI environment, and operate like most other GUI programs, but are less convenient for running text mode applications and utilities.


robothand.jpg Which Type of Product is Right for Me?
This question is easiest to answer by considering two possible user profiles:
  • You're the kind of user who has always preferred using commands to do most of your work. You may use Windows or OS/2 in order to run the applications you need, but you often find commands easier than pointing and clicking. You like the command line, and you still use many command-line applications (e.g. compilers, MAKE utilities, PKZIP, etc.), and perhaps some full-screen text mode tools like a DOS editor or word processor.
  • You enjoy the way GUI environments work, and use mostly GUI applications. However, you're tired of clicking and dragging just to move a file from one directory to another. There's a command line available with your operating environment, and you know it can be useful for the right tasks, but you want it to work more like your other applications do. You'd like to be able to select the font, scroll back through previous output with a scroll bar, maybe write batch files that run under the GUI, or even control the whole GUI environment from the command line.

If you fit the first profile, you'll probably feel most comfortable with our text mode command processors. If you fit the second, you're more likely to want one of our GUI products.


photod.jpg Why Purchase a Multi-System License?

If you need to use JP Software products on more than one machine, multi-system licenses offer many advantages over multiple individual copies. You'll save money. Our licenses are discounted heavily, and the larger the license, the less expensive it is per machine. When it comes time to upgrade, you'll save even more by upgrading your entire license.

It's easier to add users: You can increase your license size at any time simply by paying the difference in price between the old and new licenses.

It's easier to add products: You can also add another command processor to your license at any time by paying the difference in price between the old and new licenses.

It's easier to administer: You'll receive a single copy of the software, with a single serial number licensed for use on the number of systems you choose. That makes installation and upgrades simple, and saves you time and hassle.

Multi-system licenses may be used at any number of physical sites, and on networked or stand-alone systems, as long as all support and distribution are handled through a single location.


JP Software Command Processor...$899


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