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I had a dream least night in which I was on my computer and I was typing the command Netstat -a in command prompt in Ms-Dos. And I was wondering ...
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    Netstat -a

    I had a dream least night in which I was on my computer and I was typing the command Netstat -a in command prompt in Ms-Dos. And I was wondering why it looks so much like a Linux terminal command? This question persisted in my mind after I woke up. So what is the story about it?

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    Uh becuase, maybe, IT IS a linux command.
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    Please correct me if I am wrong, but from memory:
    - msdos had no tcp/ip stack by default.
    - And the first serious one for windows was... "borrowed" from BSD
    (completely ok as far as the license is concerned, but still feels a bit shallow)

    It might be more exact to call netstat a unix tool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Irithori View Post
    Please correct me if I am wrong, but from memory:
    - msdos had no tcp/ip stack by default.
    - And the first serious one for windows was... "borrowed" from BSD
    (completely ok as far as the license is concerned, but still feels a bit shallow)

    It might be more exact to call netstat a unix tool.
    Yes, you are right.

    MS-DOS/DOS is based on Unix after all.
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