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Recognizing CD-ROM Drive in True DOS Mode
Jack Klein jackkl...@att.net comp os msdos misc On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:36:48 -0800, Nikhil Kumar <nikhilku...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in comp.os.msdos.misc: How do you get the DOS Command History in WIN95 DOS Window by pressing the Cursor (Up and Down) arrows? On NT, there is an option to set the Command History to

Need to Purchase Laptop with DOS Compatibility
If not, how can I do the dos command from perl? Try backticks ``, qx, or system(). Brilliant to hear that these work. Thanks! As a matter of interest, do error messages return properly to $message if $message = qx{dos command} fails? That depends on what you mean by 'return properly'. If the dos command prints a

Issuing a DOS command from a Borland C++ Windows program
In addition, MSK treats these DOS command.com issues by having command.com execute them. In so doing MSK tries to preserve the syntax of the command line, I believe K95 tries to perform the commands using its own code. In some cases, yes, but "remote cd" is not a DOS command, it's command from the client to the

DirectCD and DOS command line
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 "Todd Vargo" <toddva...@nccw.net> wrote: Right, and that is the confusing part, the command is CHDIR (CD is short for CHDIR), why would CHDIR display what my prompt already shows? Hmm... I use CD\ a lot, which is valid syntax because it works flawlessly, in all versions of DOS I have used,

Dos command question for group
See my site for links to many DOS webpages world wide. What command in DOS only displays the file names other than dir? I am looking to create a batch file that will expand my DOS 6.2 files that I acquired all at once instead of manually. Just a DOS command line command should do it, many of the expand and extract

DOS command line not visible???
However it's important to note that windows always runs the NT dir command rather than the Dos 5 dir command (that's the difference between Dos and XP emulation of Dos is XP Dos Command.com passes all commands to cmd.exe to execute. So.... dir|sort works fine dir|sort|more also works fine. However since dos 5 dir

K95 differences with DOS product - security issue?
"MEL" <melna...@sisqtel.net> wrote in message news:#kUUKrQ#$GA.288@cppssbbsa04... I went to Start/Programs looking for the MS-DOS command prompt but there is no MS-DOS there. I then went to Start/Find/MS-DOS and nothing there either. It appears that I have lost MS-DOS. Is there a way to find or reinstall MS-DOS?

XP equivalents to certain DOS commands
On a command button push I want to run a DOS command just like from a DOS window. eg c:>type test.txt >lpt1 What I'm really trying to do is print a text file from DOS not windows. (Its a driver problem really and this is the only solution I can find). I can use SHELL to run an application but I can't find how to

Perl Win32 serial port support
The CMD is the Windows 2000 command interpreter, while COMMAND.COM is for MS-DOS commands. To force the RUN command to use CMD, make sure to include the CMD with the RUN command forcing Windows to use the CMD interpreter. For example: RUN CMD /c mysetup.bat /n I hope this helps. This posting is provided "AS IS"

DOS from a command Button
It is issuing a DOS command parameter string to a machine, local or remote. In theory, you could send a Mode change via a port to another machine which would This, however, would not be a print to a port but rather a DOS level command communication between machines, much like you would expect between two fax

DOS COMMANDS?
Delores f...@fake.invalid microsoft public win98 gen_discussion On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:33:32 -0800, "BillyL" <anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: Can any of the DOS command experts out there tell me what command to enter to do the following two things: 1) I want to copy or rename a directory that contains

16 bit application error
/MSG Loads Command.com error messeges into memory. Use with /P /L:nnn Specifies internal buffers length (128 to 1024). Use with /P. /U:nnn Specifies the input buffer length [128 to 255]. Use with /P. /LOW Loads command.com low. Used when loading MS-Dos high. command Any Command.com internal command or any external

need more help with dos commands
Right clicking on the DOS command icon and looking at properties shows the command you want. Looking at the VBE HELP (Alt+F11, F1) under Index --> Shell --> Shell Example gives you the coding and with a very slight modification you have: Sub DOS_Window() 'C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM ' Specifying 1 as the second argument

Why the DOS-like behavior when working in command prompt???
I am looking for the DOS command that will allow me to change the COM port baud rate from 2400 to 19200. For your information, I am using two separate computers linked to each other through a serial link. On one machine I am running ControlView (AB's old DOS based HMI software) and on the other I am running

ShellExecute and command line aarguments
If there was any Windows involved, then there would not arise this problem because Windows can capture DOS print outputs to disk/file and nothing else will be required. The question was "Is there any dos command to capture print out to text file? or to redirect all output to lpt1 to text file.

DOS Command Lines for Windows?
How can I call an external program or DOS-comand? You have to differentiate between executable files (*.EXE) and files or commands that are in fact executed by the command processor. Batch files fall in the second category, as do DOS commands. ShellExecute is smart enough to hand a batch file to the command

DOS commands
I open that up and see no reference to DOS except when I click on the related topics link. This shows two items: change MS-DOS command prompt window fonts change the The help glossary has this to say: command prompt window A window displayed on the desktop used to interface with the MS-DOS operating system.

Dos 3.3 commands
Help US help YOU - http://members.home.com/dts-l/goodpost.htm "Ed" <msgle...@home.com> wrote in message news:389d01c0b230$179aa900$19ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa01... How do I get the old dos command "Backup.exe" from dos 5.0 to work in windows 98? I am installing some specific software that uses this command to backup it's

Running DOS programs within the EPM command shell: is it possible?
I am trying to execute the DOS command in Matlab under Windows XP. The particular DOS command in question is COPY. My problem is that the target directory name contains spaces, and the syntax dos('copy x:\source\file y:\my dest\file') returns an error. In this paricular case I could use the truncated folder name

how to run a DOS command
Ken Blake kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain.com microsoft public windowsxp general In 074d01c33929$41e317b0$a0012...@phx.gbl, Theresa E. Roth wrote: I need to be able to create a DOS command window icon so that I can work with Dos commands at the prompt level ie. C:\> My system didn't come with a DOS command icon.