Q. What is Command Prompt Interface?

Operating System gives a text based interface called command prompt.  With the help of command prompt commands can be issued to perform file and disk management and to run program.  Results of these commands are shown to the user as text message.

C:\>-

The command prompt can be an alphabet followed by one back slash (\),  one colon (:), one greater than sign (>) and one blinking element called cursor (_).

Where C:         represents the Drive letter (Current Drive)

            \           represents the current folder / Directory

            >          represents the prompt's end

            _          blinking element represents the Cursor

Always a cursor position decides that the recent typed letter from the keyboard will appear on that position.