Re: [gardeners] OT: software question
David G. Smith (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 05:28:59 -0500
All versions of NT have it, as far as I know. It's just a "console-mode
command interpreter", not actually part of the operating system. I think
they'd have a lot of complaints if they didn't provide that.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: Shirley,George <gshirley@deltech.net>
To: <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [gardeners] OT: software question
> I don't have ME. I was told by the local software vendor that it didn't
have
> MSDos in it because it wasn't DOS based. Shows how wrong a salesman can be
> doesn't it! Thanks anyway Olin.
>
> George
>
> olin wrote:
> >
> > George - My WindowsME has the MS-DOS Prompt in the hard drive's root
> > directory. Push the START button, press RUN and type c:\command
<ENTER>.
> > This brings up DOS and the method suggested by David should work. -Olin
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Shirley,George" <gshirley@deltech.net>
> > To: <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 5:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: [gardeners] OT: software question
> >
> > > I don't know, I had forgotten about using DOS for the action. Good
thing
> > I'm
> > > still using Windows 98 SE, the new Windows ME is not DOS based.
> > >
> > > George
> > >
> > > > David G Smith wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I don't know a way to do that in Word, but I'm not much of a Word
user.
> > You
> > > > can always bring up a DOS window and do something like this:
> > > >
> > > > cd\mydocu~1
> > > > dir >prn
> > > >
> > > > Or this:
> > > >
> > > > dir >dir.txt
> > > >
> > > > You can then open dir.txt in Word and do whatever you want with it.
> > > >
> > > > Does that help at all?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: Shirley,George <gshirley@deltech.net>
> > > > To: Gardeners List <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 7:56 AM
> > > > Subject: [gardeners] OT: software question
> > > >
> > > > > I'm an old WordPerfect user who switched to Word a couple of years
ago
> > > > (about
> > > > > the time Corel started bundling WP in with a bunch of stuff I
didn't
> > need).
> > > > I
> > > > > was accustomed to being able to print out the titles of the
contents
> > of a
> > > > folder
> > > > > or menu. I haven't found a way to do this in Word as yet and the
Help
> > index
> > > > > isn't helpful at all. Do any of you out there know how to do this
> > within
> > > > Word. I
> > > > > guess I could buy some printscreen software but it looks like
Billy
> > Bob
> > > > Gates
> > > > > would have set it up to do what I need. Help!
> > > > >
> > > > > George
> > > > >
>