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Very Remedial OS/2 Question

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LorKorub:
I have about 15 total minutes of experience time on OS/2, and I have to help out a friend this weekend.  He is running OS 9.4, I think, and with my remedial UNIX knowledge, I am going to help him get some configuration down.

My problem:

How do you get to a command line in OS/2?  

I tried looking around in it a few times, but out of every menu, I could never find it. If I can figure that out, I think I'll be ok.  It does use a lot of the same syntax as Linux, right?  Does it have the same utilities like find, grep, ls,  more, etc?

Doogee:
errm wasnt OS/2 more windows based with dos and C:\ et c? or was that just the earlier versions?

LorKorub:
I have no idea, dude...

He has OS 9.4, and I just need to get to a command line.

Kintaro:
OS/2 and Windows NT Kernel and GUI Layers are very simlar. Microsoft and IBM both worked on OS/2 and Microsoft had "Microsoft OS/2" before then.

voidmain:
Uh, I don't believe Microsoft ever had an OS/2 on their own. It was created jointly for IBM from the start and then M$ started crying and left them cold.  I believe you may be referring to the start of the NT kernel. I have quite a bit of OS/2 experience and I must say I'm not very fond of the experience.

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