Thanks for the kind words Derek. No, it wasn't mindreading. The OP mentioned 'ipconfig'. This immediately told me that he was setting up a network. There are two dos commands commonly used when setting up networks. One is ipconfig, which tells you what settings you have. The other is ping. this tells you if you can access the other computer. After successfully using those commands, the next step is to figure out why windows and its programs don't work.

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This may sound stupid but... "When I want to do the same things on a 98 box, I use start, programs, msdos prompt. It does the same thing!" Start, Run, command works good in Win9x similarly to Start, Run, CMD does in NT boxes. Bryan

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Thanks again Rimfire for so eloquently putting across what others fail to see. Oh dear, seem to have tread on a few egos here, listen guys the philosophy is simple, if you don’t know the answer to my query then do not come on to my thread and tell me I’m being vague or nonsensical and please don’t come on and tell me not to post again, as has been shown in this thread, what may be vague to you is crystal clear to others. This is a large forum feel free to take your expertise to another thread where it may be better appreciated.

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Eric - in order to understand your post, it first had to be translated from gibberish to English. Long experience has made several of us here rather good at that sort of thing. "Your" thread - heh - has mainly served to illustrate "your" ignorance, as well as what a condescending jackašš you are. I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.

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No ego problems whatsoever this side of the fence. We are all only too pleased to take our hats off to anyone who sorts out a problem. We do this for free in our spare time and there are no medals. Being rude to helpers like Jennifer, who is a very willing person, does not seem very sensible. The point for the future is to spell out what you are trying to achieve, what you've tried, and what error messages you got. That is better than a guessing game and makes it easier for both the helpers and the poster. I trust that makes sense. Derek.W

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I purposely stayed out of "your thread" because we are not supposed to be guessing what you want. But I FULLY back up every one of these people that helped you. If you can't post a concise question that makes sense, how about considering a different forum? sekirt

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Bryan, you're absolutely right. Run - command does work. But only if you spell it correctly. DOS is a bit funny that way. Spelling skills are not required to click an icon!

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I have to add my little bit because no one mentioned this. On a 98 box, type winipcfg in run to view your IP address. Oh, and what Running Tim originally posted, "warning box appears informing him that there is some sort of file missing from library," that's just referring to the fact that it cannot find the files cmd.exe or comand.exe in the system directory because they don't exist. Command.exe exists though...

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