Re: Not really NB (yet): some questions

[Marilyn Edelstein <MEdelstein>]

Well, being a novice Win95 user, I can answer only one of the following =
questions (maybe).
   To get to a usable DOS prompt, one needs to click on the Start button =
at the bottom of the screen and then select "exit to MS-DOS" rather than, =
say, "shut down." This should bring you to a C:\WINDOWS prompt; I then =
typed either "c:" or
cd\c:   to get to a regular c: prompt and then it did take commands (like =
"dir" or, to get into my just-installed NB 4.5, "nb4/nb").  I haven't =
installed NB 4.5 on my new home Dell computer yet, since I'm still trying =
to get my office computer where I had just installed it to print.
Hope this helps.  Marilyn Edelstein
medelstein

<<< "DR.J.S.MEISAMI" <MEISAMI> 12/21 10:27a >>>
Dear Notabenissimi,

I have not yet had the time (read: dared to attempt) to install NB on
the laptop which now runs on win95. But I have been trying to check
out W95; and can't find a tree anywhere (plus lots of bizarre
behavior, at least to one who is an old-fashioned DOS user, which
makes me sort of a dinosaur, I guess).

Question (1): when I get a DOS prompt (from W95, selecting "MSDOS
prompt", or whatever), I can't type any commands, because I can't get
a backslash. Is this (a) a Win problem; or (b) a laptop keyboard
problem; or (c) an insoluble problem?

Question (2):  Where in my Win95 files ought I to look for a tree?
(There is something called "deltree", but when I call it up, it tells
me "missing parameter").

I'm totally confused here; can anybody help? (I realize you're all
out there doing other things, at this time of year; but I'm pretty
desperate here.)

TIA
Julie Meisami
Oxford