You better think again, I just tried to use the "format" command on a XP machine today. No such animal, along with most (all?) of the other dos commands I still use in win 2000.
Shannon On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 17:07, Chopin Cusachs wrote: > > I wouldn't be so confident. MS-DOS is like that character in the movie > Friday 13 who reappears in each sequel, only to be killed yet again. > > I wouldn't touch Windows XP with a pound of high grade anthrax, but I > would bet that there is a directory with yet another version of MS-DOS > hidden away so one can open a DOS window and do useful things almost > impossible to do from the GUI. Should be possible to do the sort of thing > that was done with WinMe, to be able to boot to DOS. > > If anyone has access to an XP machine, how about formatting a floppy with > the /s switch, then copying the useful contents from the directory > corresponding to windows/command in Win9X. Should be able to set the > NT loader up to dual boot to this DOS, too. > > Seems to me silly to go to all that trouble to make getting to DOS so > difficult. > It can be almost a necessity to restore a sick Windows OS, restoring from a > backup under a restore program that runs under DOS. Maybe one of the > reasons Linux appeals to me is I am a hopeless command line addict. > > Choppy > > At 09:07 AM 11/18/01 -0800, John Hebert wrote: > >We were close a long time ago. I have lots of fond > >memories of late nights with MS-DOS batch files while > >in the USN. GUIs? We didn't need no stinking GUIs. > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ -- __________________________________________________________________ Shannon Roddy California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
