Re: Hidden DOS files

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Hi all,
As i remember my dos commands, thee was a sys command that would put
the dos system on a given floppy drive. That command is not
important, what is important is that, given that there are hidden dos
commands, that you can display through some file manager that will
let you turn off their hiding attribute, the fact is that if you can
do ANYTHING under DOS means, probably, that they are installed. Or,
at least that has been my experience.
I would assume, until otherwise, that lisa has the very base dos
installed. If she can execute any external commands, that would be
the test.

Russ
On Mar 10, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> Harry Binswanger wrote:
> > Although only COMMAND.COM shows, there should also be two
> > hidden .SYS files. What were they called again? MSDOS.SYS and 
> > IO.SYS I think.
> Yes, and that has me worried, esp. since Lisa says her tech guy
> doesn't know DOS. Because those files are a classic chicken-and-egg
> problem. You cannot just copy them from one drive (floppy, CD,
> thumb, hard, whatever) to another. Well, you can copy them: I
> dragged and dropped them from the floppies to my hard drive. But
> they have to be placed in a certain area of the drive they're going
> to run off. And that can only be done by the SYS command (which, by
> the by, is external; not in command.com). And you have to be booted
> into DOS to run SYS. DOS has to be running off a bootable drive
> before you can install it. (And I cannot even blame Microsoft for
> this: Novell's and IBM's did the same thing.)
>
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx