From: John Beckett 

"Geo."  wrote in message
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> Oh, so the command console is a single app, it's not actually running
> format.exe when you use the format command?

It's not clear how the Recovery Console is implemented. The botom line is,
as Rich said, that you can only perform the commands listed by entering
'help' at the recovery console prompt. You cannot run utilities.

One point I wanted to make about 'winnt32 /cmdcons' is that it is not clear
what happens in the future with the Recovery Console files added by this
process. There was a KB article for W2k SP1 pointing out that the installed
RC files are *not* updated by installing SP1 (it is obvious that booting
the W2k CD and choosing to run RC is not going to use any SP updates).

I haven't seen any documentation on what happens with W2k SP2/SP3, or with
XP. I think a hotfix did update the installed RC.

John

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