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|    George Pope to Joe Mackey    |
|    DOS (was: Storage)     |
|    29 Jul 22 08:07:28    |
      MSGID: 1:153/757.0 e1c96e0d       REPLY: 1:135/392 81935d54       TZUTC: -0700       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       > You can still use DOS in Windows.       > In the search space on the lower left just type CMD and a command prompt       > option will appear and click on that.              Yup, I have an icon in my quicklaunch bar to go straight to DOS: If at first       you don't succeed, drop to DOS & do it right.              But they've dropped some commands & I can't run most of my old utilities I        found or created to make DOS work just as I wanted.              > I use it rarely, being somewhat spoiled with point and click.       > One time I had file I could not delete. Tried everything in Windows bag       > of tricks. Finally went in with DOS, and still couldn't get rid of it.       >Then remembered an old trick I was told many years ago and renamed the file an       > able to get rid of it then.              I have RDK.exe for that -- Rock's Directory Killer - takes out an entire        directory & everything inside, without the silly need to delete the files       from the lowest level on up to the top first. Of course, now the CLI's DEL       does that (finally)              > To me DOS is like an early automobile. A lot of tinkering around,       >adjust this and that, hand cranking, and all just to get the thing going. Now       > its just turn the key, put it in gear and away you go.               Yup, but I like the tinkering. . . :)               --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6        * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 120/340       SEEN-BY: 123/131 124/5016 129/305 330 331 134/100 153/135 141 757       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 203/0 214/22 218/0 1 109 650 700 720 810       SEEN-BY: 218/840 850 860 870 880 220/70 221/0 6 226/17 30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 111 112 113 206 307 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 664       SEEN-BY: 229/700 240/5832 266/512 267/67 800 280/464 5003 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 292/854 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/120 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 100 330 340 772/210       SEEN-BY: 772/220 230 2452/250       PATH: 153/757 280/464 770/1 218/840 700 229/426           |
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