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ms dos
« on: 16 February 2005, 06:10 »
hey there,
any idea how to get rid of the 'documents and settings' prompt in dos, so that i can 'start cleaning up' my old files.:confused: thanks, eob

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Re: ms dos
« Reply #1 on: 16 February 2005, 07:08 »
Nice suggestion.

I second the motion.

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Re: ms dos
« Reply #2 on: 16 February 2005, 07:37 »
cd /
Just like you'd enter in a real OS like Linux, or under a real emulated shell like Cygwin.
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Re: ms dos
« Reply #3 on: 16 February 2005, 16:13 »
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hey there,
any idea how to get rid of the 'documents and settings' prompt in dos, so that i can 'start cleaning up' my old files.:confused: thanks, eob

i'll tell you how to do that if you tell me how to change to the my documents directory under solaris.
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Re: ms dos
« Reply #4 on: 16 February 2005, 19:07 »
del *.* :D
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Re: ms dos
« Reply #5 on: 17 February 2005, 10:28 »
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del *.* :D


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Re: ms dos
« Reply #6 on: 17 February 2005, 10:52 »
for the love of GOD. it's:
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>C:

replace C with whatever drive you want to go to.  to go up by one directory, you do:
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cd ..
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Re: ms dos
« Reply #7 on: 17 February 2005, 11:32 »
I'm assuming he's already on C: (you know, to get Documents and Settings in the default location in the bleeding first place) so he need only type cd \ to Connect Directory C:\  .  My bad for confusing the two slashes.  :rolleyes:

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Re: ms dos
« Reply #8 on: 17 February 2005, 16:33 »
that's a fair old assumption to make, you know.
if i were installing windows somewhere, i'd make sure the My Documents had its own partition (also known as D:\ under DOS/windows) because after getting into the habit of making /home its own partition, it's only sensible, and to use a command prompt to change to c:\ from there you would actually need to type "c:" into the prompt.

anyway, the question is a trick question because the Documents and Settings directory is only present in a windows NT filesystem (unless you created it yourself) afaik, and so if you are using an NT system, there is no DOS there, you are probably using cmd.exe which is a microsoft command interpreter designed to look like the DOS box in windows 3.11 (and other versions), which really was DOS. cmd.exe doesn't even accept all the real DOS commands, and i think it might even have some of its own. so while its interface can be said to be based on DOS, by the looks of it the program is not DOS at all.

i'm sure you're all really interested to know that... :-D
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Re: ms dos
« Reply #9 on: 20 February 2005, 18:56 »
In know this thread is dead anyway but could someone please move it to Not Quite Mainstream Operating Systems
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Re: ms dos
« Reply #10 on: 20 February 2005, 22:20 »
it should actually be in the microsoft windows section i suppose.
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Re: ms dos
« Reply #11 on: 20 February 2005, 22:33 »
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it should actually be in the microsoft windows section i suppose.


We don't have one of those ;)
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Re: ms dos
« Reply #12 on: 21 February 2005, 22:15 »
DOS is good for running old software that won't run on Windows XP, and I use FreeDOS not MS-DOS of course.
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Re: ms dos
« Reply #13 on: 21 February 2005, 22:40 »
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DOS is good for running old software that won't run on Windows XP, and I use FreeDOS not MS-DOS of course.

 How 'bout DOSBox?

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Re: ms dos
« Reply #14 on: 21 February 2005, 23:43 »
interesting. i hope one day a totally open source dos will come out that can detect cdroms and so on, use a lot of RAM, and also get mswindows installed on top of it.
dr-dos is cool, because it'snot microsoft, but it's still not open source.

and i think i would use dosemu (which is freedos in a vm under linux i think)
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