It has been 20? years. I just want to remember and use the basics from back then ie. copy con hello.bat echo on cls print"Hello" echo off ^Z I know a lot is missing, And I want to use it in XP command prompt. It tells me it copied 1 file But there is no file to be found..? Any help on the old ways in the new command prompt?

I've been using copy con since days of very old, and I've always started: copy con file.ext Such as: copy con hello.bat If you do this, you'll get your batch file.

copy con hello.bat @echo off cls echo hello [ctrl-z] M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

Thank you both VERY MUCH. Now that I now it still works, I will have to dig out my DOS Bible THANK YOU AGAIN... Rich

The so called "DOS" in XP is actually NT COMMAND PROMPT a different proposition, direct port access is not supported etcetcetc: http://www.ss64.com/nt/ Windows NT for DOS Jockeys: http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/226/03/toc.html

Check the prompt to see which directory (folder) is current. Thats where the file ends up. Change it with CD anydir if you want it elsewhere. You can even still use F6 for ^Z in the command prompt. Nigel

xp has cmd (nt) and command so what you saying hiho Pcbuilderchris@yahoo.com