If your a techy computer person, you know what I mean.

Thanx for that Owl...or if you are older than dirt...you remember DOS commands....I still miss them...lol

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Originally posted by Pudfark:
Thanx for that Owl...or if you are older than dirt...you remember DOS commands....I still miss them...lol

LOL! I remember the commands for the Commodore 64.

Ah, DOS. Brings back many memories. I remember having to keep different versions of my config.sys and autoexec.bat files for different games, tweaked with loving care (or was it frustration) just to get the latest game to run.

There's DOS and then there's the Windows Command Interpreter. Are you sure she didn't teach you the second one?

Type VER and let me know...

I had my rig so tweaked I could play Falcon without exiting Windows. Almost everything was loaded into extended or expanded memory depending on what it was and I trial and errored some of the reserved video BIOS into usable memory. Man those were the days!

--Outlaw.

No she didn't. She taught you to use the cmd shell, which happens to share commands and syntax with DOS.

DOS hasn't been a part of a Microsoft OS in over a decade.

Furthermore, the cmd shell is lame. csh or even bash trounce it.

<Sniff> I smell linux/unix geek

"The power of Gates compels you!!" (splashes MS blessed water)

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Originally posted by GoToAway:
No she didn't. She taught you to use the cmd shell, which happens to share commands and syntax with DOS.

DOS hasn't been a part of a Microsoft OS in over a decade.

Furthermore, the cmd shell is lame. csh or even bash trounce it.

I remember proper DOS and trying to boot up Tie Fighter when I was 8 LOL

Grrrrrrrrr

Don't take too much notice of the nit-picker-geeks, Owl. If you look in Windows Help, it still refers to what you use with the command-line interface as MS-DOS (at least in XP it does).

DOS commands can be very useful sometimes, even with a modern GUI OS (you are going to have to learn what GUI OS stands for soon if you are serious about becoming a member of the ignoble order of computer geeks, there are TLAs (and ETLAs ) to learn, as well as many other mysteries and incantations).

Just a word of caution, though. This can be powerful magic, and a misspelled spell can do nasty things like deleting files you really didn't want to - take care!

Great news. Next comes 'Tres'. When you can count to three a whole new world will open up to you.

I've forgotten about half of the commands now. Must be getting old.

I never really liked DOS that much. The only reason for all of those crazy commands is that the DOS commands "leaked" out from the developers and become commonplace before they could simplify it. No need to change it after that.
It was a good thing when the DOS Shell came out and made things a little easier. Today's OS stuff is very impressive compared to years ago.

I believe this is first time you have mentioned your mom here.

I'm in IT and use the command line often, it's just quicker sometimes.

I remember using it in the army back in the 90s to put info on A drive floppys, I recall some things now like Changing dir, format drive, memmaker etc. And I needed it to start my favorite game at one time. It was DI Apache. That was a good sim.

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Originally posted by roybaty:
I'm in IT and use the command line often, it's just quicker sometimes.

AMEN!!!

Anyone else remember using menu-driven boots or boot disks to optimally configure memory for different games? Then DOS 6.2 came along with memmaker and spoiled half the fun. Ah, those were the days...