Create a folder called con

[patrick]

Something weird for the weirder...

In windows, create a folder called con

Thats all...

 

[JTech]

create a folder called "folder"

 

[bwana]

Something weird for the weirder...

In windows, create a folder called con

Thats all...

Dont do this via SAMBA - its a pain to delete.

 

[patrick]

create a folder called "folder"

No trouble with that one, but I couldn't con

 

[Random717]

typing con on the dos prompt also gives atypical results..

 

[Moederloos]

typing con on the dos prompt also gives atypical results..

as does typing "con" at the prompt (no quotes)

it is of course because con is a pipe.
dir *.* -> con diplays a directory list to the console (bloody useless of course, but there ya go),

 

[Moederloos]

[stupid people and the techno-naive DO NOT DO THIS!!!]

also, of a very high amusement factor is to type

del *.* /s/y from the prompt.

hours of fun will be had.

 

[savage]

con - console
com? - comports
lpt? - printer ports

A nice way to write to a txt file back in the XT / Dos days was copy con

copy con > file.txt
enter your data

wee - it's inside the file.

There's a good couple of these reserved words. They're not used anymore mostly, but are historically there since the dos / windows 3.1 days...

 

[Moederloos]

one I find VERY useful, is

dir *.* /B -> test.txt

will write a list of files in the current directory to a file. Always nice when cutting a CD and wanting to add a short list of the files on the CD etc.

 

[zerofocus]

con - console
com? - comports
lpt? - printer ports

A nice way to write to a txt file back in the XT / Dos days was copy con

copy con > file.txt
enter your data

wee - it's inside the file.

There's a good couple of these reserved words. They're not used anymore mostly, but are historically there since the dos / windows 3.1 days...

Remember to hit F6 and then enter to close and save the file AAAHHH the good old days!

 

[bwana]

[stupid people and the techno-naive DO NOT DO THIS!!!]

also, of a very high amusement factor is to type

del *.* /s/y from the prompt.

hours of fun will be had.

Naughty boy

 

[patrick]

con - console
com? - comports
lpt? - printer ports

A nice way to write to a txt file back in the XT / Dos days was copy con

copy con > file.txt
enter your data

wee - it's inside the file.

There's a good couple of these reserved words. They're not used anymore mostly, but are historically there since the dos / windows 3.1 days...

Yeah I become a dos boy on my first xt after realising there were other ways to copy games besides using copyIIpc!

 

[patrick]

[stupid people and the techno-naive DO NOT DO THIS!!!]

also, of a very high amusement factor is to type

del *.* /s/y from the prompt.

hours of fun will be had.

I remember the /s, still use it sometimes, but what does /y do?

 

[PeekNPoke]

copy con myfile.txt
{Enter your text}
<Ctrl-Z>

 

[ant1b0dy]

open a dos command window and type this:

md \\.\\c:\con

There's your con folder.

 

[PeekNPoke]

xcopy c:\ d:\ /s/e ... for a drive copy

 

[patrick]

open a dos command window and type this:

md \\.\\c:\con

There's your con folder.

ok genius, now how do I delete the friggen thing! kidding figured it out

 

[Highflyer_GP]

I remember the /s, still use it sometimes, but what does /y do?

confirm y/n? y=yes

 

[LandyMan]

I remember the /s, still use it sometimes, but what does /y do?

Without confirmation if memory serves me right

 

[The_Unbeliever]

LOL

So you've rediscovered the "con"...

Anybody remember the interlnk and intersvr utility bundled with MS-**** 6.xx?

Not DOS, but OS/2 related : to "clone" an entire hard disk (and, yes, it will boot) you will use xcopy c: d: /h/o/t/s/e/r/v

Other DOS tricks :

Prompt $p$g will give you the familiar C:\> prompt. I have had lots of fun in changing the prompt to C:\PORN> and see people frantically trying to CD\ back to the root, or trying to view the non-existent pr0n files...

To do so, type in (at the command prompt) Prompt $pPORN$g....

Also, should you have ansi.sys loaded, you can have colored prompts... I think it was prompt $p$e3,33$g something, it was yonkers ago...

In Win2k and XP you can change the console window size by typing in MODE CON: COLS=80 LINES=25 (or whatever). In OS/2 this was an great way to get a "scroll" buffer...

There's other DOS tricks and stuff which I can hardly remember now...