Page 1 of 1
MS DOS
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:10 pm
by Xaiveir
Going through some DoS.
Cant remember how to make the C:\ into C:\WINDOWS
any help on this?
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:12 pm
by Aatrex
cd\windows
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:13 pm
by Gidan
cd windows
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:13 pm
by Aatrex
First
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:15 pm
by 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.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:16 pm
by Aatrex
Dos is quite the cool
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:17 pm
by Gidan
command line > all gui
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:34 pm
by Tossica
I am disk operating system master!
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:13 pm
by 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
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:17 pm
by Tossica
haha. DOS only supports 11 characters in file names and 8 in directories... why would anyone EVER need more than that? haha
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:55 pm
by 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.
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:43 pm
by Tikker
The problem was likely that you're french
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:45 pm
by 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
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:47 pm
by Tikker
all my years of unix admin, foiled by DOS's lack of understanding/dealing with a space
wu to the wu
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:48 pm
by Gidan
Kinda hard to deal with dos comming from a unix enviornment, you start to realize how little dos can actually do.
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:51 pm
by 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
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:06 pm
by 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.
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:26 pm
by Gidan
I will give you that. 5.01 was nice.
Adi, what languages you programming in?
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:33 pm
by 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.