NefMoto

• Hit Windows Key + R at the same time, this will bring up the Windows Run dialogue type cmd then enter, a dos screen (black with white writting) will appear!
• go back where your program is with the mouse and right click on the address bar, hit copy as text
• Again, back at the dos windows type cd {space} then right click and paste you folder name there and hit enter, at this point thre should be no error, back to step one if there is
• Say your program is called test.exe, you can check your are in the right place by typing dir test.exe you should get a result with file size and date etc, all ok!
  
• Now to run test.exe one just needs to type test and it will run,  Some programs however need arguments (after the test part like test -t), finding the arguments is generally done by either looking at the readme file or simply executing  test /?

should give you a sometimes extensive list, google it if you don't understand and look for examples.

Useful dos commands to play with

dir c:\  /s (sorry nothing bad)
mem
pushd
popd
cd
cd..
cd\
C:
D:
E:
F:
xcopy
del (careful)
copy
ROBOCOPY (advanced!!!)

Finally type exit, the window will close.

More to come if there is interest, I began with dos 5 lol and dragging and dropping is no good unless your check for %Errorlevel% and is well hmmmm :)

Please replace test.exe with me7logger or whatever you need.

John.

ok so time for advanced operands:

test.exe>c:\outout.log will records console program output under it's working directory (the directory you are current in)

test.exe && notepad.exe test.exe will execute test.exe first, record the out then open it in Notepad, this can be useful for various things like debugging.

if you replace > with >> DOS with Append the file instead overwriting it

Robocopy is a very robust version of xcopy is manual is HUGE.  I use it all the time for copying larg amounts of data as it will resrart where it left off and it also output a log so you double check for errors /LOG+ is the switch.

To read the help just type robocopy | more this will redirect the output to the more command so you can checkout the whole output instead of it kust rolling past you.

A basic robcopy command to mirror a drive contents (assuming you have NTFS permissions) is:

Basic command to view a file in DOS
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Type text.txt this command will dump it straight to screen...

If you want it page by page type test.txt|more


Note type is actually the command!i

http://dosprompt.info/

Don't mention scripting in here! :)

deltree *.* is fine lol :)