Summary: Is there a switch that can be added to the simple DIR command that can alphabetize the results? My old DOS books do not indicate what to do here. I h...
Summary: You may want to look into the simple DIR command. Use DIR /? to see the switches you can use. then use "dir (swithches you want) >>log.txt" with out t...
Summary: I have a simple question. When we use "dir" command in DOS we get "." and ".." as directories already created. What are those and their use? ...
Summary: The DOS DIR command was not originally designed to do something link that. But in later versions, the ability to do that was added. Quite simple and o...
Summary: Hi everybody. I have a problem: My BOSS, who is telecommuting from down south, sent me a program he wrote that would recompile our CNC files on a sma...
Summary: Hello recently my computer decided to stop working so i've been snooping around the internet with my other computer to try and fix the problem. On my ...
Summary: If I boot up (DOS 7) from a diskette and then use the DIR-command, the listing returned doesn't change for subsequent diskettes inserted (in A); it ke...
Summary: Is there any way to use the dir command to select first file of similar pattern of files In unix, ls /u01/opt/incoming/abc_*.txt | head -1 something ...
Summary: Hi people I was hoping somebody could tell me what the copy directory command is...i have not used dos for so long i have forgot. Thanx, Fallen Angel ...
Summary: i need some help.. i'm trying to create an outage notification for my customers to say when like the inet is down and/or mail servers... my question ...
Summary: Let me be clearer I want to be able to access my data on the external HD the bios has native support for usb am not interested in installing windows o...
Summary: Create DIR.bat in the folder that the files will be called from? That should over-ride the default DIR command, thus: [DIR Bat] DIR /o Boy, that is RE...
Summary: From a remote access computer, I will run a batch file to capture and save into a text file the current day,date and time of a server. - The simple DO...
Summary: I am trying to use the NET USE command and I keep getting the error: NET USE could not run because the file CMDS.EXE could not be found..but I can see...
Summary: At the C: prompt use this command cd windows\desktop You should now be in c:\windows\desktop You can use the command DIR to view the contents of the d...
Summary: Supposing I have some backup files in a directory that look like this: > > Northwind_db_200102012100.bak > Northwind_db_200102022100.bak > Northwind_...
Summary: Very thanks, I supposed that something like this has been ocurred. M2Go: The SCSI adapter has the original bios in it socket, but doesn´t report the ...
Summary: This is one of the three special files used to boot the pc:- i) IO.SYS ii) MSDOS.SYS iii) COMMAND.COM a) all should be in the root directory (C:) b...
Summary: If you mean, just searching at a filename (and *NOT* the contents) you can use the regular 'dir' command with the extension '/s' : - start from the ro...
Summary: Hmmm. I am glad to see I am not the only person unable to easily explain what I want to do. Giggle..... I will take a shot! Example: Place your main p...
Summary: This is an old reference I found... I've used it and it's pretty helpful. ------------------------- USING THE ANSI DRIVER by C. Scot Giles 875 Lake St...
Summary: Hmmmmmmmm. I'm not sure... but I think you use a DIR command and then a pipe using FIND. I tried: DIR | FIND /I "volume in drive" and it showed the li...
Summary: They are simple dos commands. the commands which are embedded in the batch file are md C:\test copy \file1.mdb c:\test The file1 is already present in...
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