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I have a stupid question for you.

When I'm in dos mode from xp and I do a dir | more it works.

When I'm in dos mode from NT and I do the same it tells me that it does
not recognize more.

Why do you think Microsoft would leave out this command from the dos
mode from NT?
 
nick said:
I have a stupid question for you.

When I'm in dos mode from xp and I do a dir | more it works.

When I'm in dos mode from NT and I do the same it tells me that it does
not recognize more.

Why do you think Microsoft would leave out this command from the dos
mode from NT?
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Because WinNT has *no* "DOS mode?" (Neither does WinXP, for that
matter.) It has a command-line interface, but this should never be
mistaken for DOS, even thought some of the commands bear the same names
to reduce the learning curve.


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From: "nick" <[email protected]>

| I have a stupid question for you.
|
| When I'm in dos mode from xp and I do a dir | more it works.
|
| When I'm in dos mode from NT and I do the same it tells me that it does
| not recognize more.
|
| Why do you think Microsoft would leave out this command from the dos
| mode from NT?


As Bruce indicated it is a Command Interpreter and NOT DOS. It emulates DOS.

However both interpreters; COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE interpret the the internal MORE
command.

I had no problem piping commands to MORE under Win2K and I doubt it was removed in WinXP.
 
David said:
From: "nick" <[email protected]>

| I have a stupid question for you.
|
| When I'm in dos mode from xp and I do a dir | more it works.
|
| When I'm in dos mode from NT and I do the same it tells me that it does
| not recognize more.
|
| Why do you think Microsoft would leave out this command from the dos
| mode from NT?


As Bruce indicated it is a Command Interpreter and NOT DOS. It emulates DOS.

However both interpreters; COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE interpret the the internal MORE
command.

I had no problem piping commands to MORE under Win2K and I doubt it was removed in WinXP.
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Re-read the original post, David. ;-} The OP acknowledged that the
More switch worked in WinXP, but his complaint was that it didn't work
in WinNT. (I don't remember if it ever did or not; I haven't even seen
a WinNT machine in years.)


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From: "Bruce Chambers" <[email protected]>


| Re-read the original post, David. ;-} The OP acknowledged that the
| More switch worked in WinXP, but his complaint was that it didn't work
| in WinNT. (I don't remember if it ever did or not; I haven't even seen
| a WinNT machine in years.)
|
| --
|
| Bruce Chambers
|
| Help us help you:
|
|
|
| You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
| both at once. - RAH

Your feedback makes me interpret the post differently. He didn't specifically state NT4 and
since WinXP is a NT OS... Well you get the rest. I misread on my part. Thanx for the
correction.

However I believe I remember it worked on my NT4 server. But it has been at least a year
since I scripted on NT4 and memories fog.
 
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