Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've, forgotten and other crap

2010-05-31 Thread David Mann
On May 31, 2010, at 10:01 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Adam Maas >> Win98 still runs? > > Crawls, limps, hobbles along ... whatever, but yeah it still runs. I still have my old Windows 3.11 install disks somewhere. I thought about installing it in Virtualbox just for kicks, until I realised

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've, forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread John Sessoms
From: Adam Maas Win98 still runs? Crawls, limps, hobbles along ... whatever, but yeah it still runs. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
David Parsons wrote: You can't get to DOS in Windows. You can open a command line window by typing CMD in the Run from the Start button. Windows no longer runs on top of DOS David - I CAN get to Dos... I have XP (though it is not true dos I guess) not Vista or later. However, I have two

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread P. J. Alling
As well as it ever did. Hell, I've got hardware I use a s print server. Win95 works fine as long as you don't ask too much of it. On 5/30/2010 2:53 PM, Adam Maas wrote: Win98 still runs? -Adam On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:37 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: Win98 still runs on DOS. On 5/30/2010

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread Adam Maas
Win98 still runs? -Adam On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:37 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Win98 still runs on DOS. > > On 5/30/2010 1:11 PM, David Parsons wrote: >> >> You can't get to DOS in Windows.  You can open a command line window >> by typing CMD in the Run from the Start button. >> >> Windows no lo

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread P. J. Alling
Win98 still runs on DOS. On 5/30/2010 1:11 PM, David Parsons wrote: You can't get to DOS in Windows. You can open a command line window by typing CMD in the Run from the Start button. Windows no longer runs on top of DOS. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Ok, so I lo

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Sorenson
See my off list reply about creating a bootable disk - maybe it will help... -p On 5/30/2010 12:00 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Ok, so I lost a whole Sh*tload of mail due to some rather forced Netscape update... but forget that. I figured out a way to get into the mail I want to see by copying the

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread David Parsons
You can't get to DOS in Windows. You can open a command line window by typing CMD in the Run from the Start button. Windows no longer runs on top of DOS. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > Ok, so I lost a whole Sh*tload of mail due to some rather forced Netscape > update...

OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Ok, so I lost a whole Sh*tload of mail due to some rather forced Netscape update... but forget that. I figured out a way to get into the mail I want to see by copying the files to an external drive, putting the files on my old computer that has windoze 98 and real DOS with Kedit on it... I'm a