hi all,

I've been in IT for 8yrs and not a single time I've had the chance to delve into DOS until now, because I've got the opportuniuty to do an A+ course, after all those years I wasted. I am learning some DOS skills and know the basics such as copying, creating system disks, copying sys files from a: to c: etc. I know wot batch files are and even created one from an online tutorial.

I've being going thru the help options and I am stumped on the the following command:

c:\xcopy /? |more this command is suppose to SHOW the help option list one PAGE at a time, but it keeps missing the top portion of the help file which describes wot the command does.

Anyone with better common sense than me. By the way it works on my xp machine. On my win98 2nd ed. it is causing the problem that i've described.

best wishes

za


Right click on MSDOS prompt and select properties. Under the screen tab set the initial size to 50 lines. Click OK. Now when you open the prompt from within windows, type xcopy/? and the WINDOW should have scroll BARS to allow viewing the entire display. You can also resize the window to suit your needs.You can also use the /p switch...this displays one screen of info at a time with the spacebar available for moving the page down one line at a time. Useful in the dir command as well.IF you WANT to save it for better viewing copy and paste the commands below into your cmd prompt.

xcopy /? >%temp%\xcopyhelp.txt
start %temp%\xcopyhelp.txt
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Right click on MSDOS prompt and select properties. Under the screen tab set the initial size to 50 lines. Click OK. Now when you open the prompt from within windows, type xcopy/? and the window should have scroll bars to allow viewing the entire display. You can also resize the window to suit your needs.