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MovedGoalPosts · 19-09-2005, 21:38

Ah the good old days of DOS

Still very useful when all else fails.

You can take it all a stage further...

If your prompt relates to the C drive, but you want to mess up say your D drive, or floppy drive A, you can create your directory (sorry folder)

Code:

MD D:\folder\subfolder

To be really clever, albeit that it's not truly dos compatible (only allowed 8 characters, plus a suffix of 3) you can create a long file name directory using quotes:

Code:

MD "D:\folder\long folder name"

19-09-2005, 21:38	#5
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: Using the Command Prompt Ah the good old days of DOS Still very useful when all else fails. You can take it all a stage further... If your prompt relates to the C drive, but you want to mess up say your D drive, or floppy drive A, you can create your directory (sorry folder) Code: MD D:\folder\subfolder To be really clever, albeit that it's not truly dos compatible (only allowed 8 characters, plus a suffix of 3) you can create a long file name directory using quotes: Code: MD "D:\folder\long folder name"