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Is there a big difference in running dos by itself or running it through 98. Also what is the help sign through 98. I put in help but it said bad command.
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 5, 2000 at 10:31:36 Pacific
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98 DOS has a lot of very useful utilities stripped from it by the nice people at Micro$oft. One of those very useful utilities would be the command line help you're trying to run.
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Response Number 2
Name: Preston Date: September 5, 2000 at 13:28:51 Pacific
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For simple tasks, Win98 DOS is fine. Renaming multiple files using a wild card is impossible in explorer so i'll open a DOS window and do it. Also, files that explorer refuses to erase can be erased using a DOS command.
However, for running larger DOS software, Win98 sucks. It slows down DOS applications and you get frequent problems particularly with memory.
That's why i recommend DOS users have a small FAT16 partition on their drive and boot into DOS 6.22 (or whatever) using a boot diskette or Partition Magic.
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Response Number 3
Name: moiety Date: September 5, 2000 at 22:41:12 Pacific
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Most operable differnce is how "real mode" DOS and "launched-from-windoze" DOS handle long file names.
"real...DOS" would copy "Her_Documents" as "Her_Do~1", thus truncating the original filename.
Do as much as you CAN from the "windoze-launched" DOS to maintain longfilenames as well as recognition of all peripherals seen by windoze.
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Response Number 4
Name: moiety Date: September 5, 2000 at 22:48:30 Pacific
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oh...the other part of your question...re: "help command"
For DOS (any mode) type the command followed by a /?. eg:
xcopy /? {enter}
If you're sking about windoze help, just press F1.
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Response Number 5
Name: kirby Date: September 14, 2000 at 19:27:32 Pacific
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there is an oldmsdos directory on windows cd, the old dos help and some other utilities are there
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