dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause) (06/21/91)
The two opinions about my system (Leading Edge Model D) hanging up on setup were strange video card or old BIOS. I talked to several people and since I was able to boot DOS 5 from a floppy and run several pieces of software I should just install DOS manually. I did yesterday and the system boots happily and there are no problems (except for changing a few parameters). Now I need to expand all of the compressed files. Is there a way to avoid typing: EXPAND FOO.CO_ FOO.COM DEL FOO.CO_ about 50 times? How does setup know what the missing letter is on all of these files? Does is just "know" and I have a lot of typing to look forward to? Douglas Krause One yuppie can ruin your whole day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- University of California, Irvine Internet: dkrause@orion.oac.uci.edu Welcome to Irvine, Yuppieland USA BITNET: DJKrause@uci.edu
schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster) (06/22/91)
In article <2861C3C6.19057@orion.oac.uci.edu> dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause) writes: > >The two opinions about my system (Leading Edge Model D) hanging up on >setup were strange video card or old BIOS. I talked to several people >and since I was able to boot DOS 5 from a floppy and run several pieces >of software I should just install DOS manually. I did yesterday and >the system boots happily and there are no problems (except for changing >a few parameters). Now I need to expand all of the compressed files. >Is there a way to avoid typing: > >EXPAND FOO.CO_ FOO.COM >DEL FOO.CO_ > >about 50 times? How does setup know what the missing letter is on all >of these files? Does is just "know" and I have a lot of typing to look >forward to? Copy EXPAND.EXE and all the .co_ files to a temp directory on another drive. Move to that directory. Type: for %c in (*.co_) do expand %c c:\dos5\%c c: cd\dos5 ren *.co_ *.com then remove all the .co_ files from youe temp directory, and repeat this with the .ex_, .sy_, and other extenders. -- Mike Schuster | -CIS: 70346,1745 -NY Public Access UNIX: schuster@panix.com | -MCI Mail, GENIE: -The Portal (R) System: schuster@cup.portal.com | MSCHUSTER