In addition to this, the RIGHT ARROW brings back the previous command one character at a time, and F3 brings back the entire command. The point is that there a number of ways one can accidentally put characters on the line without thinking about it, and then, as you said, typing EXIT results in an error.
Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Sun, 3 May 2015 10:02:27 -0700, Bill Belew via Talk wrote: >When working in the command prompt you cannot move around with the regular >arrows. You can read the screen with the mouse keys. >If the output of a command fills more than one screen and you pipe to more, >you need to press enter until all screens have been displayed. If you don't >pipe to more, everything should scroll by, leaving you at the prompt. I >found an interesting thing when checking it out. If you press the up arrow >while at the command prompt, it brings back the last command you ran. If >you then type exit, it gets added to the end of your previous command and >gives a "command not recognized" error. >Bill >-----Original Message----- >From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of [email protected] via Talk >Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 3:17 PM >To: Martha Reaney >Cc: Window-Eyes Discussion List >Subject: Re: Windows 7 and ipconfig command >Hi, thank you very much for this information! Very much appreciated. >Warm Regards, Brendon Donohue >On 1 May 2015, at 7:36 am, Martha Reaney <[email protected]> wrote: >FYI, > >If i use the command >ipconfig | more > >then I can get to the IPV4 address that I am looking for, and then continue >to press the enter key until I get to the end of the file and the prompt >where I can type the command "exit" followed by pressing the enter key and >the screen clears. > >When I do not pipe to more, I cannot seem to scroll down to get to the >information that I need or to get to the end of the file, where I can enter >the exit command... > >I recall that Chris G. also said that I could redirect the output of the >ipconfig command to a file, as an option. I haven't tried this yet, but, I >trust Chris G. > >_______________________________________________ >Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author >and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >For membership options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/bill%40mind.ne >t. >For subscription options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >List archives can be found at >http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >_______________________________________________ >Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author >and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >For membership options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/steve.jacobson%40visi.com. >For subscription options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >List archives can be found at >http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
