A person I know has a defective drive, and is trying to recover some data (family pictures, documents, etc) before he sends it in for replacement.
I've been successful in entering DOS mode and s...
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In a script how can you insert a pause for X seconds between two commands?
Thanks Andrew.
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hi everyone..
i'm just a little krulik and very new to this forum so i hope people will bother reading this..
well anyway, i have a little problem:
one day i figured that over the years i ma...
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I've MS-DOS 6.22 on 3 floppies, inc the 'authenticity'/watermark card/sheet fr MS which contains what I assume to be the lic # at the bottom of the page.
I also have W's 3.11 on 6 floppies but...
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I really need to brush up on my dos!!!!!
How do I redirect the output from a serial port to a dos shell,
i set the port up with
mode com1 9600,n,8,1,p
that worked
then i tried...
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wow, its great to see people still using M$ very first operating system they took one way or another. anyway, me friend has an OLD laptop with a whopping 10 mhz 8088 processor. well, is there a fr...
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Hi, I want to overwrite my current DOS system files with DOS 6.22 system files. Of course when I try to use the sys command I get the 'Wrong DOS version' message but I have dim memories of having ...
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Appreciate some help. Is it possible to execute a file with an .exe extension in DOS? If so, how is it done?
For example, have file, lets say: abc.exe on a floppy disk in the A:\ drive, and wa...
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Hi,
I wanna include this lines in the autoexec.bat file:
@echo ff
copy test.txt lpt1
What this txt file does is to reconfigure the printer's setting. It will set the paper size to ...
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Hi all, once again I need help with something that should be easy, but I can't get to work. I'ld like to get the output of a command into an environment variable without writing to a temp file. I...
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Is there still any people out there who like windows 3x and Dos ??
I have a emulated version of it using virtual pc and loving it
who else is still running it and what are the computers sp...
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Is there a way to toggle the NumLock key in a batch file?
Thanks, Dex
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Hi folks;
Is there some way I can test for the existance of a DOSKEY macro within a batch file? Foe example:
if exist DOSKEY MACRO goto Menu
I know that line is no good, but wonder if ...
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Hi,
Need an urgent help on finding and copying.
I need to copy 2 cookie files from many PCs. Wish to create a batch program.
1) It must be able to search for the cookie file '*@rls*....
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I have aquired a few older ibm puters and have been trying too get them to work and am getting error mssg's etc errors
601, 161 , 163 . and another says syntax error is there a site where i ca...
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Is there any way to make a Ramdrive larger than 64MB?
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I know little about DOS.
When I run a command like "ping xyz.com" from Start|Run, I get the report, but the DOS window closes before I can absorb the data. I can click the Pause but...
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hi,
how do i map a printer that is connected to a windows print server with shared name \\newvision_server\2nd_floor_printer
from DOS?
thanks
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I have an old 486 that won't boot to the C drive.
Can't even get it to recognize the C drive after start up from the A drive (big floppy). I can change to the B drive (small floppy). I'm not s...
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Here's another seemingly simple question that's eluding me.
I know that if I want to delete all the text files in a directory
I can just type:
del *.txt
But what if I want to delete ...
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Hi folks, I know this is trivial, but does anyone know how I can open and close the CD tray using pure DOS 6.22? The reason I ask is, my DOS machine is down under a computer desk such that when t...
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somebody give me a link. i want to learn dos
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Need to network a Win3.11 machine to a Win98 machine, with just 2 nics and a crossover cable. Do I need to install Win3.11 for workgroups? What about just installing Win95 on the machine? If I ...
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Machine is running DOS ver. 6.6, I think he said. It keeps giving him boot volume errors. He asked me if there was a way to fix this, and I told him about IBM's fix program. I am now not sure if t...
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