How to use Windows Command Prompt (CMD) more effectively.

Use CMD to run the MySQL client rather than the "MySQL Command Line Client" link 
because you won't know what folder it starts in and so won't be able to access your datafiles.

Start CMD:
Start | All Programs | Accessories | Command Prompt
Start | Run | cmd
Start | Search | cmd

Right click the menu option in  Start|All Programs|Accessories|Command Prompt
 click "Pin to Taskbar"  so it's quicker to start.

Right click CMD's title bar, choose Properties and/or Defaults:
  Options tab: turn on QuickEditMode
  Font/Layout/Colors tabs: experiment with sizes so that entire width of screen used.
     Screen Buffer Size's Width and Window Size's Width should be the same 
        so that horizontal scrolling not ever needed.
     Screen Buffer Size's Height can be set to 1000's for long scrollback.
     Try a TT (TrueType) Bolded font.  A high-contrast color scheme is best (black/white)?

 QuickEditMode enables mouse drag select, then COPY by hitting ENTER key.
                                             PASTE by mouse right click.
 Can copy/paste from/to CMD to other text-based apps like Notepad, web browser etc


CMD typically starts in C:\Users\yourusername
so change directory/folder to your cmis320 folder before starting mysql client:
> cd Documents\cmis320
(assuming you created such a folder)

ESC clears the command line.
HOME and END go to beginning and end of line.
No need to go to end of line to hit ENTER.
Command history available by Up and Down arrow keys.


DOS commands:
> cd            current folder
> cd some\other\folder     change folder
> cd e:\folder\subfolder
> dir           folder listing
> type fname    display text file
> more fname    display text file page at a time
> date
> path          list of folders searched for a command

Tab filename completion works in CMD, so use it.
Command history available by Up and Down arrow keys.

Codepage: 
the 'world' database uses the Swedish codepage 1252, so change CMD's
codepage to 1252 when using world:
> chcp             to see current active codepage.  typically 437?
> chcp 1252        the accented chars in world will display correctly


Can start Windows applications from command line: (cf. Start|Run...)
> notepad
> calc
> charmap
> mspaint
> write
> services.msc
> regedit