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ashley26ph2003
Jun 18, 2003, 04:02 PM
any 1 knows DOS Commands
any links

SanPellegrino
Jun 18, 2003, 04:04 PM
what exactly do you want to know? 10 years ago I was quite used to it and I have an old book somewhere.

Dralix
Jun 18, 2003, 04:05 PM
Behold the power of Google.

http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm

stormerne
Jun 18, 2003, 04:06 PM
This should be in Computer Talk

Perfection
Jun 18, 2003, 04:07 PM
Ah Dos, that brings me back to my childhood, long summer days just me and the good ol 486.

Jeratain
Jun 18, 2003, 10:47 PM
Type "help" and you should get all the commands you need.

ferenginar
Jun 19, 2003, 07:40 AM
I used to be a dosser, but not any more.

GenghisK
Jun 20, 2003, 01:42 PM
I'm a specialist of DOS. Still using it a lot!
What's the question?

ArmOrAttAk
Jun 20, 2003, 07:28 PM
OK GenghisK here's something I used to want to work...

copy con mybat.bat
echo
prompt $T$D
any DOS command >> mybat.txt
^C


anyway I want the prompt of date and time to be written to the txt file.

GenghisK
Jun 21, 2003, 08:11 AM
If you're in pure DOS (i.e. NOT console under Win9x/2k), like Ms DOS 6.0 you can always try this:

@echo (ascii code of escape) | time | find "is" >toto.txt
@echo (ascii code of escape) | date | find "is" >>toto.txt

I explain. Under DOS edit, to type the ascii code of escape you must press ctrl+p then press escape. you'll see a "<-" back arrow character, it's the escape character. The piped find will normally eliminate the "the date is", so you only have the date and the time remaining.

ArmOrAttAk
Jun 21, 2003, 06:58 PM
Nice using ASCII idea. I played around with that a little but couldn't remember the escape seq. was not the same as listed in my book and I found it by accident once.

I will try it tonight-

Gainy
Jun 25, 2003, 09:05 AM
the only ones you want to be using are:
"Cd.." "Cd\" "Dir" "Dir/p" and "D:" or "C:"

That also brings me back to childhood memories :) -- (with a 286)