To create a directory in a command prompt/DOS window you will first need to open a DOS window (described above). Once you have done this you need to navigate to the directory that you wish to place the new directory in (described above). Once you have gotten this far you simply type the following "md [NEW DIRECTORY NAME]" where you specify the name of the directory you would like to create by replacing the "[NEW DIRECTORY NAME]" in the preceding string with the name you want.

First, start up SmartDrive to speed things up. Next, run WINNT from the I386 folder. Setup should launch, warn you if you don't have SmartDrive loaded, copy the cd to a temporarily to your hard disk and reboot your computer. A more detailed guide.

To change directories simply type "cd [DESTINATION DIRECTORY]" where the destination directory is the name of the directory you wish to navigate to

Yes, and no. By default, Cygwin g++ produces an executable that is a "console application" intended to be run from within the Cygwin environment called bash. If your environment is set up right then double-clicking on the executable in Windows Explorer will run the program in a shell, but the shell will disappear as soon as the program exits (if this doesn't work for you it probably means that the cygwin directory isn't in your path).

XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT don't contain DOS, although XP can create DOS-bootable disks. All three OSs support the cmd.exe command shell, which lets you run NT-equivalent DOS commands. In XP, go to Start, Programs, Accessories or click Start, Run, then type to start the command shell. For earlier application support, you might want to try the command.com shell, which is more compatible with MS-DOS than cmd.exe is. In XP, click Start, Run, then type to start the command.com shell. Command.

The env script in Windows has an extra option at the bottom called USE_JAVAW. If you "uncomment" this line by removing the "rem" statement, the javaw.exe program will be used to launch the SIB Explorer. This means that the script will return immediately, leaving the SIB Explorer still running. This action can be useful if you wish to run the SIB Explorer directly from, for example, a Windows shortcut and don't want a command prompt also running. Before the sibexplorer.

Posted in Bootstrike Forums by wmccain] Windows XP includes TWO command-line processors, CMD.EXE and COMMAND.COM. The second one, COMMAND.COM, is a stripped-down version of the command processor from DOS. The Windows XP version of COMMAND.COM is severely restricted in its capabilities (lacks long filename support and many other features familiar from Windows 98SE), so it is all-but-unusable. Furthermore, it turns out that there are TWO ways to run CMD.

The copy command in DOS and Windows 9x will not copy zero-length (empty) files. The copy command in NT and Windows 2000 will. I'm talking about FILES here, not folders. Why would you have an empty file? You might have a program or batch file that creates a file to log output, but then no output is actually generated. Presto... empty file.

No. Windows Me doesn't include Real Mode DOS, so it's impossible to boot the system into DOS mode or reboot the system into DOS mode. You can, however, use a Windows Me boot disk to boot into a command prompt.

Many people incorrectly believe that this cannot be done in Windows 98. It just requires an extra step. (If you have a really old version of Windows 98, you might need to download some of Microsoft's updates first.) Open the properties dialog for the folder for which you wish to display thumbnails (right click, then select properties, or highlight the folder, then do file->properties). Now check enable thumbnail view, and proceed as above for newer versions of Windows.

The command prompt is a text based application that provides direct interaction with the Unix system. It is similar in context to MSDOS or the Command Prompt window you can bring up on Windows systems. A listing of basic commands with documentation is available at http://www.math.duke.edu/computing/intro.html#BASIC. In general, most things can be done through the graphical user interface. But sometimes we will ask you, or it may be quicker and easier, to use the command prompt.

Well, firstly we are developing a Windows user interface. This will be Win-32, i.e. it will run under Windows 95 and Windows NT. But since the compiler is a non-graphical application, and the DOS interface runs quite happily under all flavours of Windows already, it has not been as high a priority as making sure that the basic functionality is top-notch. In other words, we believe an excellent compiler with a DOS front-end is better than an average compiler with a Windows front end.

Neither former nor latter. Till version 5.0, our software had no support for the command prompt windows in Windows® 2000/XP/2003/Vista because since Windows® 2000 an operating system itself processes this kind of windows very differently and separately than "normal" windows; for example, such windows even don't fit XP visual styles. Finally, we have added the support of command prompt (a.k.a. console/CMD/DOS) windows but currently it has beta status.

Close down any open command prompt windows. You can do this by typing "exit" and pressing enter, or clicking the [X] at the top right of the window. Click on the following link and choose "Open" or "Run" to turn on tab auto-completion in your roaming profile's registry: http://studenthelp.itee.uq.edu.au/faq/cmd_autocomplete.reg Now you can use the tab key in the command prompt to auto-complete files and directories. Just start typing the name of the directory (ie: "C:\Docu") and press tab.

Because workspaces are marked as System Folders, so we can associate a special icon with them. Of course this doesn't help when you're in dos mode. Use dir /as to see system folders.

The core system is based on the command line, but there is the X Window System with provides a Graphical User Interface environment. Window managers (such as Afterstep, fvwm, Enlighment) and desktop environments (GNOME, KDE) build on top of X to provide a total GUI experience. Are there 'windows-like' Internet clients like Eudora, Netscape, etc. available on Linux? How about ICQ? IRC. Netscape is available for Linux. There are also graphical e-mail programs for X.

You can either safe boot the Falcon and that will immediately put you at the DOS prompt, or you can press capital C at the 'Press Any Key To Continue' screen, then select exit.

Vasily Titsky: "...Briefly, when inserting text into the console application (through the system menu or through the link drag-and-drop) the kind OS does the following: if the next symbol code is not within the current application Keyboard Layout (current language is English, but we need to insert a Russian symbol; or vice versa), system "emulates" the input of this symbol through the Alt+digits.

If you are running XFree86 4.0, try turning off your num lock key. Or upgrade to the very latest XFree86 4.0.x where I believe that bug is fixed. a short-term workaround you can use "matlab -nojvm" to get back to the R11 xterm interface, which doesn't have this problem.

Windows XP does not have pure DOS mode, the only two ways are to execute "CMD"(preferred) or "COMMAND" from the run dialog box. If you want the real pure one, you can boot up from a DOS/Win95/98/ME boot disk or create one using Windows XP itself (insert a diskette, right click the drive in My Computer, Format, check Make System Disk) or you can install 2 OS's (like Windows 95/98/ME, which allows you to access pure DOS).

Sure, you can. Create a primary partiton BEFORE your Windows partition (e.g. with PartitionMagic) and get a boot manager (I use the german tool 'Bootmanager', you can get a free trial version at http://www.bootmanager-pro.de).

Right-click the title bar of an open command window and click Properties. Set the colors, font, window size, etc. When you Save, you'll be asked whether it applies only to this window or all windows opened using the same shortcut.

Some commands expect more input from the keyboard, but don't necessarily provide prompts to the user. You can type <Ctrl>-D to send an end of file, which will normally end the program, or if that does not work, type <Ctrl>-C which will abort the program. You probably inadvertently typed <Ctrl>-Z, which is the Unix signal to put a program in "background". Type fg to bring the program into the foreground, and continue.

The math department printers accept jobs that are either Postscript or Text. If you have another type of file that you would like to print you will need to convert it or print it with an application that will convert it for you. To print a PS or Text file use the following commands: # lpr -P substitute with the name of the printer you want to print to and with the name of the file you want to print.

ControlTier has built in support for prompting from inside commands. If a user is prompted while using the shell interface, a message is written to stdout and the response read from stdin. If a user is running the graphical console, a dialog is raised. ControlTier has a unique network-savvy prompting task that should be used by commands that are executing commands in remote modules.

Actually, most programs don't do this. It's too easy to create directories in unrelated parts of the filesystem if you make a typo.

To create a text file in Windows you must first navigate to the specific area that you would like to store the text file using the Windows Explorer. Once you have done this, right click on any empty location in the explorer window for that location and move the mouse cursor to "New." Then choose "Text Document." Having done this, a new text file has now be created, but needs to be named. You can either leave it with the name "New Text Document.txt" or rename by typing in a new name now.

I have a NetWare 5.1 server and I need to create a multiple config boot. With MS-DOS, it was as simple as using the following structure in CONFIG.SYS. [Menu] Menuitem=BootServ, Boot Server Menuitem=BootWork, Boot Workstation Menudefault=BootServ, 10 [BootServ] [BootWork] Files=60 Buffers=20 Device=c:\CDROMDRV.SYS /D:CD001 Then AUTOEXEC.BAT looked like this. Prompt $P$G Goto %config% :BootServ cd\nwserver server goto END :BootWork mscdex /d:CD001 goto END :END Here is a sample CONFIG.

There isn't such a way to do this so far, but a simple workaround is to open a window and manually drag the edges to fill the screen without using the maximise button. The next time you open it, it should remember that size.