You can download this
utility from the Web site at
http://www.promptpal.com/
. This utility does require a full installation,
unlike many of the utilities described so far in this chapter. In addition, the program you download
from the Web site is a 30-day trial version. However, if you spend much time working at the
command prompt, you??™ll find that your return on investment is substantial when you consider the
time you??™ll save. Figure 23.3 shows the PromptPal interface, which looks almost nothing like the
Windows command prompt you used in the past.
Figure 23.3
PromptPal supports
an interface that
makes working at
the command
prompt fun.
The utility sports a two-pane interface. The upper pane is where you type your commands; the
lower pane shows the results. Using this approach means that you can always see the command
you typed and the result it produced with equal ease. However, that??™s only where the extended
functionality starts. Whenever you start typing a command, PromptPal displays a list of matching
commands, eliminating most typing errors. In addition, it displays the longer versions of that command
that you typed in the past as shown directly below the
DIR
entry in Figure 23.
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