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DOS HELP
Name: Prince Ong Date: April 15, 2000 at 23:15:14 Pacific
Comment:
i need help. i need to create a program *.bat that goes like this: 1. pause and display "WARNING...please read instructions" without using the "REM" 2. del d:\@test\*.* and not ask the user to type yes or no 3. copy system.dat, user.dat, system.ini, win.ini from c:\windows to d:\@backup; i have problem to copy the hidden system files as they says it is not found... 4. format c:\ /s without asking for yes or no 5. ask the user to enter the CDROM drive letter and use it to open the setup.exe in the cd 6. close the program by itself
Name: The Pirate Date: April 16, 2000 at 01:06:28 Pacific
Reply:
WHY?
If ya wanna do that - whose machine yar wanna fuckup?
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Response Number 2
Name: Myself Date: April 16, 2000 at 06:57:49 Pacific
Reply:
na...it is not someone's machine i wanna xxxxxx, it is that the person i want to fix his com is a stupid ones, thus i need to make a program that is free from user intervention...hope that you can understand...thanx anyway
Name: The Pirate Date: April 16, 2000 at 15:45:01 Pacific
Reply:
Fairy nuff - just checking.
Like the person says - programming.
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Response Number 5
Name: Myself Date: April 17, 2000 at 09:29:58 Pacific
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i need to further clarify, you see this person has problems with his com so i need to help him format and reinstall from win 98 to win 95. i need to copy some files, del some, move some etc....so i need this program, can anyone help me please?
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Response Number 6
Name: mr o Date: April 19, 2000 at 04:26:59 Pacific
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Cant be bothered to write out a batch file for you so here are the commands youll need
echo - display text on screen ((echo .) for a blank line) pause - wait for user to press key(this seems to be the only way to pause) del - i think you know what this does attrib - turn off attributes for the registry files. (so you can del them) format /autotest - format without user intervention.
Find some dos help files and work it out yourself. that way you learn how to do it the next time.
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Response Number 7
Name: mr o Date: April 19, 2000 at 04:28:54 Pacific
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oh and youll need choice for the cd bit
a good way to learn about the commands is to type (command /?)
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