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|  Message 23857  |
|  George Pope to Joe Mackey  |
|  DOS (was: Storage)   |
|  29 Jul 22 08:07:28  |
 MSGID: 1:153/757.0 e1c96e0d REPLY: 1:135/392 81935d54 TZUTC: -0700 CHRS: LATIN-1 2 > You can still use DOS in Windows. > In the search space on the lower left just type CMD and a command prompt > option will appear and click on that. Yup, I have an icon in my quicklaunch bar to go straight to DOS: If at first you don't succeed, drop to DOS & do it right. But they've dropped some commands & I can't run most of my old utilities I found or created to make DOS work just as I wanted. > I use it rarely, being somewhat spoiled with point and click. > One time I had file I could not delete. Tried everything in Windows bag > of tricks. Finally went in with DOS, and still couldn't get rid of it. >Then remembered an old trick I was told many years ago and renamed the file an > able to get rid of it then. I have RDK.exe for that -- Rock's Directory Killer - takes out an entire directory & everything inside, without the silly need to delete the files from the lowest level on up to the top first. Of course, now the CLI's DEL does that (finally) > To me DOS is like an early automobile. A lot of tinkering around, >adjust this and that, hand cranking, and all just to get the thing going. Now > its just turn the key, put it in gear and away you go. Yup, but I like the tinkering. . . :) --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6 * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757) SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 120/340 SEEN-BY: 123/131 124/5016 129/305 330 331 134/100 153/135 141 757 SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 203/0 214/22 218/0 1 109 650 700 720 810 SEEN-BY: 218/840 850 860 870 880 220/70 221/0 6 226/17 30 227/114 SEEN-BY: 229/110 111 112 113 206 307 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 664 SEEN-BY: 229/700 240/5832 266/512 267/67 800 280/464 5003 282/1038 SEEN-BY: 292/854 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 SEEN-BY: 423/120 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 100 330 340 772/210 SEEN-BY: 772/220 230 2452/250 PATH: 153/757 280/464 770/1 218/840 700 229/426 |
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