Re: Dialing in

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From: Ian Stirling
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:00

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Peter Chant <pete@neither.demon.co.uk> wrote:
<snip>
>I prefer the help you got with DOS 3.3. DOS 6.0 Manual, Index, SYS, "type 
>HELP SYS at the command prompt." (or something similar). Why would I 
>want to be using SYS if I had a working machine with a full dos installation?
>I want help on that sort of stuff from the nice paper manual. DOS 3.3 came
>with a nice ring binder.

To copy the system to a floppy or hard disk.
The system being msdos.sys, io.sys, and command.com.
IIRC, msdos.sys has to start at the beginning of the disk.

Re: networking commands under windows,
http://www.ora.com/catalog/netpc/excerpt/ch06-06.htm

Or, searching on the microsoft home page, for tracert,
gives a few documents, some few in is "overview of networking commands" 
which looks usefull.

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