MS DOS

[Xaiveir]

Going through some DoS.

Cant remember how to make the C:\ into C:\WINDOWS

any help on this?

[Aatrex]

cd\windows

[Gidan]

cd windows

[Aatrex]

First

[Gidan]

though it was a convenient question as I am playing around in dos right now, stupid HD diag having issue with an old drive.

[Aatrex]

Dos is quite the cool

[Gidan]

command line > all gui

[Tossica]

I am disk operating system master!

[Tikker]

help, i was learning dos today too!

wtfux


ps, does it bother everyone else that to go from c:\ to c:\Program Files i have to type

cd PROGAM~1


what the fuck were they thinking

[Tossica]

haha. DOS only supports 11 characters in file names and 8 in directories... why would anyone EVER need more than that? haha

[Snero]

dos saved my ass last month, somebody saved a file on my computer that was too long, so the name was shortened, but it saved as the full name in a temp folder. I couldn't delete it, I couldn't rename it, I couldn't delete the temp folder it was in, nothing worked. So I went into dos and deleted the folder there and problem solved.

[Tikker]

The problem was likely that you're french

[Arlos]

Yeah, I had a file kinda like that on my old system. Claiemd the file was 0 bytes in size, and from windows, I couldn't do a damn thing to it. Always got an error that it couldn't find the file when I tried to delete it directly, but if I tried to wipe the folder, it told me there was a file in there. Went to dos, still couldn't delete it directly, but was able to do a force-delete of *.* and that got it.

And yeah, Tikker, dos isn't designed to understand spaces or anything longer than 11 characters. All filenames had to be 8 characters long, max, with a 3 character extension, and you could *NOT* use spaces. Even now if you tried to cd \ program files as a command, it'd barf, cause it doesn't recognize the space in the filename. Makes it a bit of a pain in the ass if the file itself that you want to manipulate in dos has a space in its name. Windows can access it, dos, nope.

-Arlos

[Tikker]

all my years of unix admin, foiled by DOS's lack of understanding/dealing with a space


wu to the wu

[Gidan]

Kinda hard to deal with dos comming from a unix enviornment, you start to realize how little dos can actually do.

[Arlos]

It may be limited, for true, but to this day, I think that DOS 5.01 is probably one of the most bug-free pieces of software ever written.

-Arlos

[Adivina]

Its great for compiling programs, quick easy to work with and generally bug free, so I am happy to use it to do so.

[Gidan]

I will give you that. 5.01 was nice.

Adi, what languages you programming in?

[Adivina]

When I used DOS most frequently was compiling Java programs. However, I also use HTML, XML, CSS, CSS2, and other basic web design languages and as far as programming languages I have a basic understanding of C, C++, Perl, Basic, Java, and Java Script, Visual Basic. I plan on taking courses and grabbing some books to become more proficient in them.