Originally posted by Karthik Veeramani:
sorry for the dumb q, im new to eclipse.. can u tell me exactly how to use this feature... i mean, which menu, how...
Karthik, there are no stupid questions, only stupid people who don't ask questions
Next to the debug and run buttons is a third - run external tool. From this drop down, select the last item (External Tools...).
On the Popup, select program from the configuration side and hit the New button.
Name this whatever you like. For the location, select Browse file system and point at the cmd.exe file (this will vary slightly depending on which OS version you are using - find your system32 folder, it should be in there - ie c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe). Then when you run this, your console window is now a DOS shell.