Command Prompt not very prompt...

[AKMonkeyboy]

I have a user who's experiencing a problem processing commands from a command line interface.

Command prompt will open, and I can run DIR, however, when I attempt to use EDIT the window closes abruptly with no error message. Any programs that use the command line interface are also closing without error messages.

Any thoughts? Anyone?

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Teach a man to fish, and you feed
him for life.
Send a man to Tek-Tips and the poor sap can find out how to fish on his own, and learn more by doing it.

 

[vacunita]

Is there anything relevant in Event Viewer?
How is he calling up the command prompt?


Shot in the dark here: There may be a virus mucking around with the command.com. Try replacing it with a clean one from another machine.




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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[AKMonkeyboy]

Thanks vaucunita, I'll give it a shot!

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you feed
him for life.
Send a man to Tek-Tips and the poor sap can find out how to fish on his own, and learn more by doing it.

 

[Diancecht]

I'd try also "cmd /c edit" from command line to check if you can see any error message

Cheers,
Dian

 

[smah]

Do taskmanager & regedit work? Have you done any virus scans lately?