| Topic |
Notes |
| Install Errors |
If you get the error
below when you are installing a program follow the solution:
"Error: config.nt. The system file is not suitable
for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications"
Solution:
 | Control Panel, System, Advanced, Environment Variables
Remove all spaces from any Tmp (or Temp) variable.
(ie: c:\temp will work
if you make sure the directory exists.) |
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| Environment |
Environment from DOS prompt
| Spaces in directory or file names.
Use quotes (" ") when referring to dir/files with
spaces: "Program Files" |
| Displays the content of the environment variable named
"path".
c:\> set path |
| Sets the path variable.
c:\> set path = "c:\jdk1.3.0\bin" |
Environment from Batch files.
| You can reference the value of a environment variable by using
%<envrionment name>% (ie: %path%). |
| Appends path info to the end of the path variable
set path=%path%;c:\jdk1.3.0\bin; c:\mydirectory |
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| command.com |
Command.com
| Creating a new command shell with an environment size of 4096 and
call a batch file test.bat.
 | command /e:4096 /c call test.bat |
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| Command Prompt |
Command prompt
| Go to a DOS command prompt:
Start, Run, cmd.exe [enter] (For Win 2000, XP and
above) |
| To cut-n-paste to and from a DOS command line.
Right click in the top title bar of the DOS window.
Choose Edit.
(Now play with Mark, Copy, Paste. Works a little
strangely at first!) |
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| Help on DOS commands |
Help on DOS Commands
| help <DOS Command>
Ex:
help xcopy
help del
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| Creating a text file |
Creating text files
(logs, etc...)
| > - redirects output to a new file.
>> - appends redirected output to a file. Creates one
if it doesn't exist. |
| echo off
echo ************** >> logfile.txt
echo Start process >> logfile.txt
echo ************** >> logfile.txt
date /T >> logfile.txt
time /T >> logfile.txt
dir *.* >> logfile.txt
echo ************** >> logfile.txt
echo Finished >> logfile.txt
echo ************** >> logfile.txt |
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| DOS Scheduler |
AT - the dos command.
See my other web page:
Windows-Auto
Services
DOS Task Scheduler, etc... |
| Accessing other
Computer |
Accessing other
Computers
| If you have security access:
dir
\\<computername>\<directory
name> |
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| DOS Batch & Parms |
Passing parms to a
batch file: The example below shows how you can
pass a parameter to a batch file and then access it.
Step #1:
mydos_batchfile_parms.bat - create this file with the following content:
call mydos_batchfile_parms_called.bat ParmEx1 ParmEx2 ParmEx3
pause
Step #2
mydos_batchfile_parms_called.bat - create this file with the following content:
echo off
echo Parms passed: %1 %2 %3
echo Parm 0: %0
echo Parm 1: %1
echo Parm 2: %2
echo Parm 3: %3
echo on
Step #3
Run the batch file: mydos_batchfile_parms.bat
Results to the DOS Screen:
Parms passed: ParmEx1 ParmEx2 "ParmEx3 Multiple Words"
Parm 0: mydos_batchfile_parms_called.bat
Parm 1: ParmEx1
Parm 2: ParmEx2
Parm 3: "ParmEx3 Multiple Words"
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| Custom Logs & theEvent
Viewer |
Custom Logs & the
Event Viewer
| Create a Custom Log
Win XP: Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Event
Viewer
| To create a new log view, click "Action", "New Log
View" and then specify the name.
For example: Custom Logs |
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| Note: You cannot write a custom event to the Security
log. |
| Creating an Event via DOS
| Command: eventcreate /l LogName /so EventSource /t
EventType /id EventID /d EventDescr |
| EventID - 1 to 1000. |
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| Launch IE from a Batch
File |
Example Batch File -
this one also creates a log file.
set strLogFile=MyTextFileA_batchfile_run_asp_via_ie.log
echo ************************************ >> %strLogFile%
echo Start: %date% %time% >> %strLogFile%
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IExplore.exe" http://www.google.com
echo Stop: %date% %time% >> %strLogFile%
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| Creating a Log File of
when a batch file runs. |
Log Files Create from
a Batch file. rem: Warning: If run from a Windows Scheduled
Task you must provide full path for filenames or CD to the path
as seen below!
c:
cd "C:\_data\webs\A\michael-thomas.com\tech\dos"
set strLogFile=mydos_createlogfile.log
echo ************************************ >> %strLogFile%
echo Start: %date% %time% >> %strLogFile%
echo Run program here.... >> %strLogFile%
echo Stop: %date% %time% >> %strLogFile%
pause
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