From: "Bob W"
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 able to open the files with Kedit at the dos prompt -within-windows...
> what I've forgotten how to do is
> toggle out of windows entirely to fill screen dos... which I need to do.
> and then get back to windows.
>
back in the old days computers used to boot into DOS and a batch file which
started Windows. If your old machine still works that way you could amend
the batch file to skip Windows. Without a suitable old machine to hand I'm
just going from memory, but you could also amend something like config.sys
or startup.sys or .bat, I think, but unless you're absolutely sure of what
you're doing it's best left alone.
I believe she said she has a Windows 98 machine. To open a DOS window
you select - Start|Run and type "command" in the dialog box. Click OK or
hit ENTER. The DOS window can be resized by dragging a corner or by
clicking on the little DOS icon in the upper left of the toolbar and
setting the properties.
Also, with Windows 98 there's a shutdown mode that allows you to
shut-down & restart in MS-DOS Compatibility Mode.
Holding down F8 during startup brings up a Windows 98 menu and one of
the options is to boot to a command prompt.
Thats the first question...
>
> The second problem is my 'SENT' file is merely too big to use Kedit ... it
> is about 79 mgs.... can't open it
> on my new computer either I'd kinda like to split it in pieces but don't
> know how or if.
>
Splitting files cleanly isn't an easy thing to do.
Instead of using an editor that's limited why not try a different editor?
Textpad is a very good one <http://www.textpad.com/download/>. You can
download it free on a tryout basis, and pay for it only if you decide to
keep it. I liked it so much, I paid for it!
Or you might be able to open the files in Notepad or Wordpad.
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