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Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote in message news:7pm7ck$s0b$1@mochi.lava.net...
> Tom MacIntyre wrote in message <37bd4581.42413857@news1.ns.sympatico.ca>...
>> Todd <Post_to_group_only@nospam.com> wrote

>>>>> My encyclopedia and movie/music guides are on D: REFERENCE.

>>>> It would make a lot more sense to have that D: Data.

>>>> But you cant have A: Apps or P: Programs.

>>> So type DIR and read the label.

>> DIR/S is even better, if necessary...

> One of the best parts of the DOS prompt.
> "Hmmm, I wonder how much space that new app takes up. Let's
> look in Explorer.  Wait there is about 50 subdirectories, I can't add
> all that up.  So I will open a DOS prompt windows, move to that
> directory, and type DIR /S /A.  Now I know how much space it uses."

There are plenty of better ways of doing that than the dos prompt.

>>>>> At the DOS prompt,

>>>> Hardly anyone uses the DOS prompt anymore. Dinosaur stuff.

>>> That's the only place your arguments had
>>> any meaning! Geez, get with the program.

>> Here's where I disagree with both of you...DOS is still relevant for me...

> I think his reply meant that he also uses the DOS prompt.
> And of course I agree with you, DOS is very important to many of us.

The dinosaurs with a FAT32 Win9x system
thats working fine. The world's moved on.

>>>>> I can go from a directory three levels deep on one
>>>>> drive, to a directory five levels deep on another drive.
>>>>> I can go back and forth just by typing the drive letter.

>>>> And its even easier with shortcuts etc. The world's moved on.

>>>>> With one drive, you have to continuously retype in
>>>>> the entire path for which directory you are going to.

>>>> No one with any sense types stuff like that anymore.

>> In DOS, DOSKEY lessens this type of activity...when
>> Windows is in trouble, one still has to be able to use DOS...

> Tom, I agree with you, but I just don't use DOSKEY, never got used to it I guess.

Dinosaur |-)