Subj : DOS (was: Storage)
To   : Joe Mackey
From : George Pope
Date : Fri Jul 29 2022 08:07:28

> You can still use DOS in Windows.
> In the search space on the lower left just type CMD and a command prompt
> option will appear and click on that.

Yup, I have an icon in my quicklaunch bar to go straight to DOS: If at first you don't succeed, drop to DOS & do it right.

But they've dropped some commands & I can't run most of my old utilities I  found or created to make DOS work just as I wanted.

> I use it rarely, being somewhat spoiled with point and click.
> One time I had file I could not delete.  Tried everything in Windows bag
> of tricks.  Finally went in with DOS, and still couldn't get rid of it.
>Then remembered an old trick I was told many years ago and renamed the file an
> able to get rid of it then.

I have RDK.exe for that -- Rock's Directory Killer - takes out an entire  directory & everything inside, without the silly need to delete the files from  the lowest level on up to the top first. Of course, now the CLI's DEL does that (finally)

> To me DOS is like an early automobile.  A lot of tinkering around,
>adjust this and that, hand cranking, and all just to get the thing going.  Now
> its just turn the key, put it in gear and away you go. 

Yup, but I like the tinkering. . .  :) 

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