Subj : list.com To : AKAcastor From : Ed Vance Date : Tue Apr 16 2024 21:18:10 Before Logging on again, I turned the XP box on to see the L.bat file that I put in a sub-directory actually is: list/w . At a cmd prompt I typed set and the sub-directory is located in the path= statement. I looked, but I can't find where or when or how XP put my location for l.bat in the path. PC=1. Ed=0. again. The list help file has a .doc extension , XP thinks it is a Wordpad Document instead of a text file. At a cmd prompt I use EDIT.EXE , occasionally. I use WordPad for most of what I write. Often I go to a Admin cmd prompt and make.txt files of all files on the HDD. AT C:\ I type dir /s/-p >> 'place to put the text file' . And a second time I add /b ahead of the /s/-p portion of the command. I mostly will look at the file made with the /b when I am wondering where on the C: Drive is a file I want to find, since the /b option shows the Full Path also. Ages ago I read an article saying .rtf files can contain problem code, but since I am writing text I don't think any .rtf file I ever shared with others would harm their system. You wrote the word 'oblivious' . 40 years ago when I bought the Commodore C=64 , 1541 and VIC Modem 300 I also purchased a pack of two 5 1/4" floppy disks for $2.00 USD. I read in the 1541 manual the Command new was used to format a disk. I tried over and over typing new the disk name Comma two letters. Never could make the floppy drive format one of the disks. The 1541 drive had a Utilities Disk and I saw a PRG (Program) with the title of "Test Disk", so I ran it, was asked to insert a blank disk in the slot and press Return. When the test finished I learned the blank disk had been formatted. I used that PRG to format the other disk I had and began typing in and saving BASIC code in Popular Electronics mags and other books I had. I'd say that first formatted disk was made when the C=64 System was two weeks old. Much later in reading, I learned the Command on PAGE 1 of the book called 'open' was suppose to be typed first, then some numbers and then I could type 'new' on the command line and my 1541 would format a disk for me. OBLIVIOUS ???, It wasn't to me. and I am still that way. No one needs to make up stories about Me, telling it as You saw me do it is bad enuf. Here is another one: Late one night I accidentally touched the mouse button as I had Windows Explorer open and saw a sub-directory disappear. It was bed time so I shut the PC off. The next morning at a cmd prompt I typed dir *. /s to look for the missing folder. I had remembered the name. I found that I had dragged the sub-directory down to the next one shown in Windows Explorer, so I moved it back where it originally had been. THEN I told on myself in the FIDO Windows echo. The next day a reply message mentioned all I needed to do after the sub-directory disappeared was to press CTRL z (which I knew was Undo). DUH Is there anyone reading remember when Tom Walker wrote to me about CTRL z years ago? --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (21:1/175) .