Solve : i have searched to site over and found answers to parts of my

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Answer» i am in a MESS it is simple i open my cmd and command prompt to type commands and i get internal external command not recognized. what disk do i use? for external commands and are my internal commands in a wrong folder and also when i type a command a new window with file, or a edit bar does not pop up a blue window. i have worked for 3 days day and night now i am asking this simple question. and might i add i have followed your batch file ms dos command a hundred times nothing i can't get dos to work only the dir, command only i cant change of move i know this question has to be somewhere i am sorry please tell me what i am doing that i can't get the commands to work. maybe i should add i have WIN 98 dos files in a seperate folder i can't find xp folder i took out a cab folder from win 98 i read that i a booboo where should my files be thank you Hello RUBY - welcome to the CH forums. Most of your post doesn't make sense, at least to me. I assume you are able to boot to Windows XP but cannot find the internal/external commands from the Command Prompt? Or are you booting to Windows 98 in a dual boot configuration? Quote from: Ruby04 i have followed your batch file ms dos command a hundred times nothing i can't get dos to work only the dir, command only i cant change of move i know this question has to be somewhere What does this mean? Quote from: Ruby04 maybe i should add i have win 98 dos files in a seperate folder i can't find xp folder i took out a cab folder from win 98 i read that i a booboo where should my files be And this? If you mean you are booting to Windows 98 then trying to locate folders/files on an NTFS partition then the answer is that this cannot be done. Win 98 will not recognize NTFS. If you are booting to Windows XP and receive the error message command not recognized when entering commands at the Command Prompt then it might be that the folder C:\Windows\System32\ does not appear in your Path environment variable. Did all your problems suddenly appear or have they grown over a period? Can you be sure your system is not infected? Please read this... i am sorry i am a NEWBIE, i have XP2 PROGRAM. yes i am trying to get dos commands to heed to their commands. i read the dos section, i copied all the commands. i understand what they do. (dos is not foreign to me) i have tinkered here and there. and at no time have i been able to get but a few to work. for that reason, i went under ground and found their files and what i could do with a mouse i have explored(or maybe i haven't) this computer was an upgrade from 98 to XP the dos command prompt wouldn't work until i put in windows 98 dos file into the win32 file(anyway i believe that's what made the prompt work). i can now open the dos window, but every command i type disobey's me. i have a feeling i am missing something very simple maybe the order of process, the disk, maybe a program, a re-boot process. i just need some simple coaching not mentioned in the dos section. by the way when i gave up on the dos commands i stumbled into the edit window and typed a java (welcome.java) file (i am trying to learn to program) i couldn't get it to preform whatever. i saved it and downloaded it into my browser. it did not have a graphic interface. another perdictiment, i downloaded a gnu program. it took me a week going in and out of the files to find the window to type in and, before that a week, to figure out which/how file to put the path to the program in. the intructions kept telling me to put the path in autoexec.exe well XP HAS autoexec.nt. when i tried using the gnu window it kept saying i should close because it couldn't find the path i created. well XP does not have a config file(empty)XP doe not have a config.exe, or an autoexec.exe. remember in am underground opening files with my mouse because i can't get dos commands to work) so i made one or i think i did. i did find the autoexec.nt and i also entered the path there. i also entered a path in the window of the dos interface admin. window. i kept entering and making files because i couldn't get the gnu program to work without warnings. i am telling you this hoping you can get a mental picture of whatever i am missing in programming. the interface of OF WIN 98/XP i can change any setting and i am pretty suave at fixing any problem so long as i stay where a mouse is required. as soon as i GO sub-ground the computer skills stop. it is much simplier when you insert a disk, after the program downloads you go to your desktop and boom an icon. it doesn't work in computer programming. computer programmers who write books and explain the process are excellent instructors but, if they skip a "byte" you don't get to program or get the program to function. there is one way in, one way out, one way process. instructors assume because your reading their book you must know how to get to a file and where it's located but, you don't know how to change the function(not always so) thank you so much for your time so much appreciated beyond every byte! ruby

Solve : i have searched to site over and found answers to parts of my question scattered?

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i am in a MESS it is simple i open my cmd and command prompt to type commands and i get internal external command not recognized. what disk do i use? for external commands and are my internal commands in a wrong folder and also when i type a command a new window with file, or a edit bar does not pop up a blue window. i have worked for 3 days day and night now i am asking this simple question. and might i add i have followed your batch file ms dos command a hundred times nothing i can't get dos to work only the dir, command only i cant change of move i know this question has to be somewhere i am sorry please tell me what i am doing that i can't get the commands to work. maybe i should add i have WIN 98 dos files in a seperate folder i can't find xp folder i took out a cab folder from win 98 i read that i a booboo where should my files be
thank you Hello RUBY - welcome to the CH forums.

Most of your post doesn't make sense, at least to me. I assume you are able to boot to Windows XP but cannot find the internal/external commands from the Command Prompt? Or are you booting to Windows 98 in a dual boot configuration?

Quote from: Ruby04

i have followed your batch file ms dos command a hundred times nothing i can't get dos to work only the dir, command only i cant change of move i know this question has to be somewhere

What does this mean?

Quote from: Ruby04

maybe i should add i have win 98 dos files in a seperate folder i can't find xp folder i took out a cab folder from win 98 i read that i a booboo where should my files be

And this? If you mean you are booting to Windows 98 then trying to locate folders/files on an NTFS partition then the answer is that this cannot be done. Win 98 will not recognize NTFS.

If you are booting to Windows XP and receive the error message command not recognized when entering commands at the Command Prompt then it might be that the folder C:\Windows\System32\ does not appear in your Path environment variable.

Did all your problems suddenly appear or have they grown over a period? Can you be sure your system is not infected?

Please read this...

i am sorry i am a NEWBIE, i have XP2 PROGRAM. yes i am trying to get dos commands to heed to their commands. i read the dos section, i copied all the commands. i understand what they do. (dos is not foreign to me) i have tinkered here and there. and at no time have i been able to get but a few to work. for that reason, i went under ground and found their files and what i could do with a mouse i have explored(or maybe i haven't) this computer was an upgrade from 98 to XP the dos command prompt wouldn't work until i put in windows 98 dos file into the win32 file(anyway i believe that's what made the prompt work). i can now open the dos window, but every command i type disobey's me. i have a feeling i am missing something very simple maybe the order of process, the disk, maybe a program, a re-boot process. i just need some simple coaching not mentioned in the dos section.

by the way when i gave up on the dos commands i stumbled into the edit window and typed a java (welcome.java) file (i am trying to learn to program) i couldn't get it to preform whatever. i saved it and downloaded it into my browser. it did not have a graphic interface.

another perdictiment, i downloaded a gnu program. it took me a week going in and out of the files to find the window to type in and, before that a week, to figure out which/how file to put the path to the program in. the intructions kept telling me to put the path in autoexec.exe well XP HAS autoexec.nt. when i tried using the gnu window it kept saying i should close because it couldn't find the path i created. well XP does not have a config file(empty)XP doe not have a config.exe, or an autoexec.exe. remember in am underground opening files with my mouse because i can't get dos commands to work) so i made one or i think i did. i did find the autoexec.nt and i also entered the path there. i also entered a path in the window of the dos interface admin. window. i kept entering and making files because i couldn't get the gnu program to work without warnings.
i am telling you this hoping you can get a mental picture of whatever i am missing in programming.
the interface of OF WIN 98/XP i can change any setting and i am pretty suave at fixing any problem so long as i stay where a mouse is required. as soon as i GO sub-ground the computer skills stop. it is much simplier when you insert a disk, after the program downloads you go to your desktop and boom an icon. it doesn't work in computer programming. computer programmers who write books and explain the process are excellent instructors but, if they skip a "byte" you don't get to program or get the program to function. there is one way in, one way out, one way process. instructors assume because your reading their book you must know how to get to a file and where it's located but, you don't know how to change the function(not always so)
thank you so much for your time so much appreciated beyond every byte!
ruby

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