Bad Command Or File Name

"Bad command or file name" was an infamous error message in early versions of Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, which is based on a command line interface (in contrast with, say, Windows, which is GUI-based). The dreaded "Bad command or file name" message represented basically the same as the "Syntax error"* message from BASIC interpreters of the 1980's, and both resulted from mistyping a command to be executed or file name to be loaded or saved. Novices, in general, and quite a few experienced users as well, had trouble understanding the message, so in later versions it was changed to " is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file". (* In some later BASIC interpreters, the "Syntax error" message would include the offending program line with the erroneous command(s) printed in reverse video, i.e. highlighted on the screen; a rather more helpful measure.)

 

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