John Sessoms wrote:
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.
Thanks, John... (and all youse guys)
Old news now -- but all I do is click on my msdos icon on the desktop :)
then to get full screen, as Eric reminded me, its ALT ENTER.
back to chores...
ann
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