Ok, that worked in dos, but I think where i'm getting confused is do I have to run bitcoind on my computer?
I thought this would be like a webapi call, not needing my computer.

Basically I want to verify a message using the verifymessage command.  But I want to do this in javascript in a web api call.  But this isn't a webapi call I guess? I'm guess that I'll need to run this on command line.

I've been using blockchain's api, but they don't have verifymessage in the web api commands.  Are there any free apis that have this?