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Amendment to "dos command list - basic question"
A command prompt on NT is not DOS. It is a 32-bit program (a plain old Win32 program) which implements a command-line interface. When you run COMMAND.COM under Win NT, what you're executing is a 32-bit version of the DOS command line processor, which may be significantly differently. If attemp to run the actual

want MS-DOS prompt commands
Dan Hensley dan.hens...@attbi.com comp soft-sys matlab On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:51:41 -0600, poc wrote: I have some problem with matlab dos command for execute .exe consol command. I have make.exe in c:\make and a file titi.mak in directorie d:\work in dos window i execute : path c:\toto toto titi.mak The matlab dos

Can I issue a DOS command without invoking a DOS prompt window?
David McRitchie dmcritc...@msn.com microsoft public excel programming Hi Jim, A lot of DOS commands are available in a VBA command. Take a look at the SHELL command in the VBE Help for things specifically DOS, but keep in mind that directory and others have VBA equivalents.

dos command
Hon...@sector27.de comp lang java programmer When trying to read the output stream of a dos command excuted with exec on win95 java seems to be unable to detect the end of the input stream and hangs/loops forever; the following code is supposed to execute either the default command C:\windows\command.com /c dir or

Dos Commands from Vb
The Undocumented DOS commands http://www.abc.se/~jp/articles/computer/microsoft/ undocdos.txt Undocumented and obscure features in various MS-DOS versions -- Outsider MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Netscape Navigator 4.08 "The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to

HELP! Windows 3.11 Memory Problems
COM is the more "MS-DOS compatible" version of the two shells. For example, this shell will call AUTOEXEC.NT and CONFIG.NT (located in the SYSTEM32 directory inside your Windows directory) just like MS-DOS used to call AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. So, if you're having trouble running your old DOS command line

Need DOS Command Advice
Once back in Windows95 click on the Restart to MS-DOS button and see if the CD-ROM drive is recognized. The system should automatically create a new "Exit to DOS" file when you enter MS-DOS. IF YOU BOOTUP DIRECTLY TO MS-DOS: * * If you are booting up directly to DOS command prompt via F8 boot menu (press F8 on

DOS Commands from VB
Andreas Meile andr...@hofen.ch microsoft public basic dos "Jack Danniel" <jd...@prodigy.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3bc0c183.417224@msnews. microsoft.com... Hi everyone. I'm running Windows ME, but I'd like to know if it's possible to reset a file's date and/or time--preferably with a DOS command,

Win 98 reboot DOS command?
In my 98 autoexec.bat file I had a command line, prompt $p$g$e[32m, which caused the dos command prompt to display the current drive and directory in green. When I upgraded to Windows XP, somehow the old prompt command was transferred. However, instead of $e[32m causing a green text it just caused a [32 to be

no eof of output stream of dos command
If you execute the DOS command Dir the directory listing is displayed on the screen. Excel cannot access this screen display but Excel can execute the DOS command. If you make the DOS command put the stuff that it usually displays on the screen into a file Excel can do something with it. To get this DOS command

Invalid COMMAND.COM
"Quan" <qng...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:018901c36350$17ce37b0$a301280a@phx. gbl... Can some expert tell why I can't execute a dos command when I am in the COMMAND area? Here's what I did: RUN type COMMAND in the dos window type IPCONFIG another dos window flashed for a quick second then there is nothing.

MS-DOS 6-6.22 User's Guides?
My question is: Does it work with the DOS command line, on a DOS session opened under Windows 98? Is it a bad idea to try to copy files from my hard drive to my DirectCD CD-RW using the DOS "copy" command this way? I've been having some problems with some of my disks, and this may be the cause. Thanks in advance.

Running Dos Program
All three OSs support the cmd.exe command shell, which lets you run NT-equivalent DOS commands. In XP, go to Start, Programs, Accessories or click Start, Run, then type cmd.exe to For older application support, you might want to try the command.com shell, which is more compatible with MS-DOS than cmd.exe is.

dos command
But if you do want to open a DOS shell, you can still do so from WCL by typing "SHELL", or "DOS". You can run Windows and DOS programs by typing their names and pressing <ENTER>, just as you would do at the DOS command line. If you are running OS/2 version 2.1, then you can also run OS/2 programs from within WCL.

DOS from a command Button
The more you know about it, the more you'll come to realise that DOS is very powerful and plenty usable in the 21st century. I am going to research the history of this command back to MSDOS 1.5 or so to see why CD displays the directory instead of changing it. *** Well, as posted by someone else, many DOS commands

run DOS Command Line from Visual C++ 6.0 Visual Studio source ...
klautauNO_S...@ieee.org> wrote: Using Runtime I can call DOS programs but internal DOS commands like copy and dir throw "error 2". Any clue ? You answered your own question. Internal dos commands are built into command.com. You must launch command.com to use them. I haven't done this in a dog's years,

using the windows "DIR" command
Impmon Imp...@digi.mon alt os windows-xp On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 05:13:43 GMT, "Arby" <rbatt...@rogers.com> smashed the keyboard with a hammer and typed: One person suggested that I go into safe mode and use Dos commands to delete the offending files. I know how to enter safe mode, but How do I use Dos commands to

Creating a DOS command window in Windows XP
What the above Exec does is that it executes the command processor (in fact, a new copy of the command processor.) The /c specifies that the command interpreter is to perform the command, and then close (not halt). Note that the command (in the example dir *.*) can be an MS-DOS command, a program, or a batch file.

Running a DOS Copy Command from VFP (urgent)
A client of mine has a requirement to support a number of old applications that are strickly DOS based. The applications require the execution of certian DOS commands from the command line (ie. print, rename, etc). Attempts to execute these commands in a win95 DOS window result in the "Incorrect DOS version" error

dos command to capture print out to text file
What they are requesting / demanding is a DOS like interface until they have time to learn some UNIX. Their are lots of UNIX programs that make DOS look like / work like UNIX but I need UNIX programs that look like DOS. Example a "C" shell script that would work on a UNIX system when a user typed in a DOS command