Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 9 years ago. Improve this question Maybe this is a dumb question but is something I need to know. All laptops, computers, etc that i’ve used until today runs … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question What does timeout /T > null mean in batch programming. I mean I can’t seem to figure out what > null means here. … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question What is the simplest way to transfer files from a Unix system to a DOS system? Preferably without any “extra” tools on the … Read more
Client is using a very old DOS program that I can not get to directly print. I can get it to write out to a txt file though. I know about PrintFile but it will only print the file once and won’t print again if the txt file gets updated. This is a long shot … Read more
A file match for *.tmp also returns various *.tmpll files, is there anyway to restrict it to *.tmp files only? dir C:\*.tmp /s Also lists a load of *.tmpll files as well. Reason for doing this is to provide a simple way of deleting all windows temp files now that CleanMgr has been removed from … Read more
I tried typing cmd or cmd.exe at the bash line which then takes to the DOS shell. But from there I tried executing something like trial.bat which contains some lines to access a series of executable commands, but to no avail. Is this the correct way to go about it? Thanks ~ Answer You might … Read more
Any example of windows xp dos script(.bat) that when run will iterate all subdirectories and list all files that have date updated since yesterday time? Answer This should get you pretty close to what you need. I pipe this to a txt file called dir.txt on my desktop. @echo off XCOPY * “%TEMP%” /H /L … Read more
we have several DOS applications (Clipper) which share dbase files on a file server. The applications run under XP. This has worked for about two decades with Netware and for years with Samba (member server) without problems. Some weeks ago I upgraded openSUSE from 11.4 (samba-3.6.3) to 12.2 (samba-3.6.7) and changed the hardware (to AMD … Read more
It is a pretty complicated issue (at least for me). GUI software at a given moment, calls console software, which outputs something to console and quits. I’d like to save those results to a text file, but I can’t call the console software myself. Is there anyway to globally record all console outputs? Answer Nope. … Read more
I have a console application running remotely in multiple computers. I was wondering if there’s any way to quit from it remotely and then start it again. I saw the use of taskkill to quit the application, but… is that the correct way of doing it? Won’t it have consequence in terms of memory usage … Read more
