Finding Files on Win98
Jay Emrie
RS> JE> C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\Find.exe on my system. See if it is
RS> JE> there on your system.
RS>That's a different FIND. Under Win9x, everything in \WINDOWS\COMMAND
RS>is DOS stuff. The directory name is for "command prompt", but why
RS>they didn't stick it in \DOS I can't say for sure. My guess is that
RS>if there was a directory called "DOS", people would whine about how
RS>the OS is still DOS-based, so it was step #1 in hiding DOS from the
RS>end user. WinME goes a step further, apparently- I've heard there's
RS>no "restart in MS-DOS" mode- and WinNT/2K seem to have eliminated
RS>"true" DOS entirely (all that remains is a DOS session under Windows,
RS>which is really just an emulation window).
Mea Culpa. Thanks for the info.
Jay
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