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Change display of DOS command prompt
DOS watches the standard character output continuously. If the first character of a line (that is, the first character following a carriage return) is a ^D (ASCII $04), then DOS will attempt to process the remainder of that line as a DOS command, and will return an error if the command is not valid.

sending result of dos command via mail
Stan Brown brown...@concentric.net comp os msdos programmer james.kea...@xtra.co.nz (James Kearns) wrote: Is there a DOS command, which actually lists all available commands, in the WIN 95 version of DOS? This is only a partial answer to your question, but it may be better than nothing: %windir%\command\help It

program to change attributes ?
The linker is a DOS tool so I have to use the "cmd.exe" under NT. I get a "The system cannot execute the specified program" error from cmd. I think it's because my link command line is too long. Is there anyway I can increase the command line size that "cmd.exe" can handle? Thanks in advance. CMD.

MS DOS
Joseph M. Newcomer newco...@flounder.com microsoft public vc mfc That is not a DOS command, it is a "shell command". Of course, dir c:\\ would be best done with FindFirstFile/FindNextFile APIs, copy best done with the CopyFile API, etc. So it depends on what you are trying to do. Key here is that "dir c:\\" is

Using DOS commands in VB code?
It IS the DOS COMMAND.COM, but as you RWP> might have noticed, it DOES support long file names to a certain RWP> extent [. It would be "more true" that the COMMAND.COM on DOS-Windows was a DOS program than it would be true that the COMMAND.COM on Windows NT was a DOS program. The COMMAND.COM on DOS-Windows is a

I NEED VALUABLE MS-DOS COMMANDS FOR WINDOWS ME!!
The DOS command: "mode lpt1: 132,8" does not affect my printer anymore. Is it Windows, or doesn't windows recognize the printer properly? Do I need a TSR program to load before I execute my DOS program? -- Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com If you use the DOS prompt or the Run dialog box to enter DOS

wincmd73.zip - Command line interface for Win-3.x & Win-OS/2
bgeer bg...@xmission.com comp os ms-windows apps bru...@get.hooked.net (Bruce Kobrin) writes: tb...@panix.com (Tom Betz) wrote: I'm trying to find a good command line shell for Windows that emulates most of MS-DOS's commands within Found this on the 'net... Upload information for wincmd71.zip (WCL v7.10)

Equivalent in XP of DOS-command DIR>filename
Chris Marriott ch...@chrism.demon.co.uk comp os ms-windows programmer misc In article <23q277INN...@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> kk...@ecst.csuchico.edu writes: I am currently writing a Windows program in Borland C++ and I need to issue certain DOS commands from code. The C++ "system" command is not compatible with

Unable to execute dos command in Command
To execute internal DOS command (Dir, Copy, etc. as well as redirection of screen output), the command processor must be specified. Specifying the command processor is safe & generic and will work with non-internal commands also. That syntax, using an XCopy command as an example is: Shell Environ("comspec") & " /c

Can Files be Re-Dated...via DOS Commands?
Can someone tell me how a 6502 machine language program can go about executing DOS 3.3 or ProDOS commands? So far there seems to be hints that point to putting the DOS command in the keyboard buffer ($200-2FF), with a Control-D as the first character of the buffer, and then somehow calling a subroutine to "fake"

The Dos help file.
As you said yourself "command.com is the command line interpreter for dos". If you equate that with DOS, then a machine running DOS but using the 4DOS command A further difference is that the NT COMMAND.COM is not a "real" DOS command interpreter either. Some of the standard commandline tricks do not work,

How to use DOS commands with modifiers In VFP
98115-0165 206-522-3222 and 24 hr hotline 206-522-BIKE http://www.cascade.org "Mike Y" <myur...@ccbcmd.edu> wrote in message news:1914601c23183$4c3406b0$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12... This is a rather basic question, but something I haven't had to do for a while. When in MS-DOS command prompt, how do you do a "chdir" to

Dos command separator ?
ADD this -> shell=c:\dos\Command.com (this will let the be an additional command com to help with interupts instead of the one in the root directory I have only one (write-protected) copy of COMMAND.COM, and it lives in C:\DOS. /E:nnn Specifies the amount of memory to allocate for the root environment.

DOS Command
Nothing to do with Dos. XP's command prompt is a 32 bit windows console application. Any command you type into a Dos command prompt get given to the 32 bit command prompt for execution. Type in start Run cmd then dir /? command then dir /? command /k dir /? [This is the Dos 5 Dir command.

Where is my MS-DOS command prompt?
"C:\DOS\Batch\DOS Help Commands\Output\COMMAND-NAME Help Command.txt" @echo off echo COMMAND-NAME Command >> "C:\DOS\Batch\DOS Help Commands\Output\COMMAND-NAME Most people who like to use DOS commands, find that it is more convenient/organized to have a folder for such commands, or at least the batch files.

How to get a list of Ms-Dos commands avaliable in Windows 95 ...
However, u ->know, dos just roll it real quick till the end. Is there any way or dos ->command to scroll ->it page by page or pipe it to other file? You could try adding more to the end of the command line. Note that there would be a space before and after the | This adds a pause when the screen is full.

DOS Command History
Bill Watt nobw...@epix.net microsoft public win98 gen_discussion Billy, I guess you didn't see my other post here about the MOVE command to re-name a folder in Dos. Boot with a Win98 Startup diskette. Use the MOVE command to re-name a directory. To rename a directory C:\Windows to C:\Winbad enter this;

fpd26/nt4 and dos command line length
I have done this on ms-dos and pc-dos and it works fine. I also found that instead of running 'cmd' one can also opt to run 'command' under xp and obtain All dos floppies support choice. It probably isn't installed. What's a normal command.com. Only programs executing dos commands can call Dos commands.

unix's cut command for DOS ??
The first "chunk" in what you enter as a command is taken to be the command itself, and is interpreted in this look-up order: 1) Is it an internal DOS command, such as Copy, Dir, Del etc.? 2) Is it the name of a DOS executable in current drive:\directory? - first, it looks for .bat files, which are lists of

Another DOS Thread (was Out and About)
Thanks Tricky, because unless XP got smarter than I know (and it's about time) a DOS command can't simply put the output of a command into an environment variable, like 'echo value | read variable' or 'variable=$(echo value)' or 'variable=`echo value`' (depending on choice of UNIX shell). But, leaving that as your