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Tips and Tricks

Some tips and tricks for a more productive session


Tip #1 (DOS session)

Add /Z to the command line when starting COMMAND.COM and DOS will return the ERRORLEVEL on a separate line each time. 
   C:\WINDOWS>xcopy a:\*.* c:\
   Invalid path - a:\
   The device is not ready.
          0 File(s) copied
   Return code (ERRORLEVEL):   4    <-------------- this line is returned


Tip #2 (Windoze)

If you use MS Internet Mail, you can free some disk space.
Go to FILE, FOLDERS, COMPACT, and then ALL FOLDERS.


Tip #3 (Windoze)

To turn off modem speaker, entry atm0 in the advanced properties of connections (That is zero, not an O).


Tip #4 (DOS session)

To delete all files with out DOS asking yes or no, use:
DEL *.*?

Tip #5 (DOS session)

(This was sent to me. I have not checked it. It looks more like a Unix based trick)
To make command line longer than 128 bytes

(config.sys) SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /P /U:255
(doskey) Doskey /line:256

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