04-19-2004, 06:17 PM
Hi,
Glad to see there's still interest in dead languages :)
First, don't type these in a the run box of the start screen. Instead look for a command that is something like "DOS Prompt" (no idea what it would be in Spanish). Running that command opens a DOS window which is like the old command line interface. Type those commands that you are experimenting with in the DOS window and you should see the results. If some of the output scrolls off too fast to see, try adding the "/p" switch which will often cause the results to "page". Also, you could also pipe the results through more by simply using the | symbol as in
dir | more
Many DOS commands are set up so that if you use the command name followed by /? it will give you a list of the switches with their meaning.
To redirect the output to a file, simply use the > symbol. So,
dir > text.tmp
will put the output of the dir command into the text file text.tmp in the active directory (which you can change with the cd command).
If a program hangs up, you can usually stop it with control-c
And, yes, this is the right place to ask for that kind of help :)
--Pete
Glad to see there's still interest in dead languages :)
First, don't type these in a the run box of the start screen. Instead look for a command that is something like "DOS Prompt" (no idea what it would be in Spanish). Running that command opens a DOS window which is like the old command line interface. Type those commands that you are experimenting with in the DOS window and you should see the results. If some of the output scrolls off too fast to see, try adding the "/p" switch which will often cause the results to "page". Also, you could also pipe the results through more by simply using the | symbol as in
dir | more
Many DOS commands are set up so that if you use the command name followed by /? it will give you a list of the switches with their meaning.
To redirect the output to a file, simply use the > symbol. So,
dir > text.tmp
will put the output of the dir command into the text file text.tmp in the active directory (which you can change with the cd command).
If a program hangs up, you can usually stop it with control-c
And, yes, this is the right place to ask for that kind of help :)
--Pete
How big was the aquarium in Noah's ark?