I booted my Win98SE computer in pure DOS (Command Prompt mode). I selected a small 35 KB text file in my root directory named "My Saved Messages.txt" and entered: C:\>type mysave~1.txt The text contained in this selected file immediately and automatically scrolled down to the end of the text. What commands must I enter in order to prevent this from occuring so that I can read the full contents of this text file from its beginning to end? Thank you for your help.

Try to run this "Type My Saved Messages.txt|more" (without the quote) and it shall pause the screen after every page.

you can try typing edit mysave~1.txt this will bring up the dos editor called Edit. you can read and edit files from here. there might be a better way though; im not a dos junky.

Add /p after the txt extension remember a space between txt and /p

/p ? you trying to tell them the wrong information for fun? a crappyier way of pausing the data, is to use the pause key (top right of keyb), you can use this key to pause most things , inc the boot process (useful for viewing the computer info screen that amibios's bring up)

If this command is in your DOS, you can use BROWSE instead of TYPE

Heysus Krist on a crutch. HERE'S WHAT YOU DO!!!!!! you type "THIS" at the C: prompt: "type text.doc|more" (ENTER) you are using the "type" command, you type the name of the file that you want to "type" including the "dot" extenstion, and then you use the "pipe" symbol--thats the one that looks sorta like a colon, but with "long" dots on my keyboard its "shift backslash". "/p" DOES NOT WORK with the type command. If you can get into Windows, you could probably open it with notepad or Word. If you have some other old editor on the maching, you could probably do it that way too. DON'T ANY OF YOU PEOPLE EVER READ OLD DOS BOOKS???????