Re: Not really NB (yet): some questions

["Earls, JP" <JEarls>]

Comments: To: "meisami" <meisami>

1) I suspect it is a laptop problem.  I have never experienced a difficulty in
getting the backslash in my Dos window.
2) You asked where to find a tree directory in W95, not in the Dos window
thereof.  I cannot get a tree directory in the Dos window, but you can get one
in W95 itself.  If you right click on the Start button, then go up to Explore
and click on that it provides a tree-like display in the left-hand column of all
your directories and subdirectories.  You have to click on the little plus marks
to display all the ramifications of the tree.
--JP

J. P. Earls, OSB
English Department
St. John's University
Collegeville, MN 56321
Ph. (320) 363-2705
jearls

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DR.J.S.MEISAMI [SMTP:MEISAMI]
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 1998 11:27 AM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
> Subject:      Not really NB (yet): some questions
>
> 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