Program cannot be run in DOS Mode?

[Hollywood]

First off I would like to say great site.

In the information givin by the Riddler under section 4 it says in DOS to type;

C;\windows\explorer /e,c:\windows\tempor~1\content.ie5\

when I do it tells me this cannot be run in DOS?

I can get the CD\WINDOWS\TEMPOR~1\CONTENT.IE5 to work but only get one alphanumeric number and it shows there is no files in it.

What am I doing wrong if anything?

[voidmain]

quote:
C;\windows\explorer /e,c:\windows\tempor~1\content.ie5\

Not that I care but in NT Server I just did a Start->Run and typed:
explorer /e,c:\winnt\tempor~1\Content.IE5

and it did work. It shows the cache directories etc... I assume you can do the same in Win9x but change the "winnt" to "windows":

explorer /e,c:\windows\tempor~1\Content.IE5

But who really cares? Install a *real* OS.

[ December 14, 2001: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Hollywood]

Nope Don't Work!!

[Centurian]

Hey Hollywood,

explorer /e,c:\windows\tempor~1\Content.IE5

Don't know what version you have but the above works under 95 and 98SE for me.

Later
Centurian

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Hollywood:
Nope Don't Work!!

Hey Hollywood.  I was going to give you some shit and then I looked at your profile and decided better of it.     Naw here I go anyway, considering where you work:

First of all, I hope you are playing with this at home and not at work.  If it is at work why the heck are you running MS products?  Save us all some dollars and get rid of that crap will ya?     Let alone the security implications of an OS that you have no earthly idea what goes on under the covers...

[gump420]

Hollywood, are you by any chance trying that command under real DOS mode and not a DOS box running in a window? I'm pretty certain that if a program can't run in DOS mode, and you access under a prompt, then it just loads up the program as if you'd double-clicked the icon.

The DOS mode part of that tutorial comes a bit later, in any case. Looking at the directory under Windows was just to prove that Windows was hiding files that are visible in DOS mode.

[Hollywood]

Thanks gump I got it to work and found my alphanumeric files. But when I drop in to DOS and open them they are empty. No files at all. On another computer I tried this on there are files inside (mail files) but on mine they are empty. Go figure.

[Centurian]

quote:Originally posted by Hollywood:
Thanks gump I got it to work and found my alphanumeric files. But when I drop in to DOS and open them they are empty. No files at all. On another computer I tried this on there are files inside (mail files) but on mine they are empty. Go figure.

Boot from a floppy and you will have no trouble finding them. When you boot from a floppy only command.com is active no registry info so they become visible.

Later
Centurian

[Hollywood]

Centurian

Thanks it worked great