In a message dated 9/18/2001 8:39:29 PM Central Daylight Time, DBCfour@xxxxxxx writes: > what do you do when you need to do > something via the command line? Dos is no more in XP ...right? > Donna... there is a run box just as in previous version of windows... but... forget about running the dos comands... as I said in an earleir post.. if you have win95 and/or programs for win95 or earlier... best find new ones and dont attmept to upgrade with those files on your pc,especially if you have important data in them... lots of folks are going to find themselves in a hurt due to that fact.... even the cheapie bargin PC hardware stuff will create problems due to drivers not working or even loading.. many a soul will find themselves with a nonoperational pc....most of the groupies are still experimenting with xp and dos.... but I havent seen many as of yet... may be that will never find any... time will tell bit too early as of yet.... but I am not deep into the actual construction of those files so not really sure....there is also a compatibilty mode that can be used to run older files... but a big warning comes up and stsates it may create problems and or malfunctions in the pc.... so it should be fun with what the possibilities are going to be for thr faults that people will generate.....Chuck.. in Ok UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk