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   Message 23,857 of 24,715   
   George Pope to Joe Mackey   
   DOS (was: Storage)    
   29 Jul 22 08:07:28   
   
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   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. . .  :)    
      
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