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-----Original Message-----
From: Kirsten X
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:56 PM
To: Karl X; Win Technical Q&A
Subject: How to edit files at the command prompt WITHOUT edit.com

Karl,
My condolences for the loss of your "bird".
The bird seed was quite insensitive, I agree!
But, I actually had a call last week with the msdos.sys missing as well as edit.com
Go figure, I could have used this last week.
Thanks for the information.
I bow down to the DOS guru........
a compliment you know :)

Kirsten X
Win9x Support Technician
Cube 2428
Team Logizomechanophilia
"Poverty has nothing to do with a lack of money, but with a deficit of dreams." Unknown



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-----Original Message-----
From: Karl X
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:52 PM
To: Win Technical Q&A
Subject: How to edit files at the command prompt WITHOUT edit.com

Okay, so you're at the command prompt, and you need to add a line to msdos.sys. Or maybe you need to completely rebuild msdos.sys? But you don't have a text editor of any kind. Muahahahahaha!!!

1. How to add a single line to the end of a file
- navigate into the directory with the file you need to add a line to
- type the following: echo wakka > foo.txt
This will create a text file named "foo.txt" in that directory containing "wakka"
- type the following: copy file.txt + foo.txt file.txt
This will add the contents of "foo.txt" to the end of "file.txt"

2. How to build an entire msdos.sys without edit.com
- navigate to the root directory
- rename msdos.sys out of the way if it exists
- type the following: echo the first line of the file > ms.dos.sys
This will create an mdos.sys file containing the text "the first line of the file"
Yes, you need to replace this with the actual text of msdos.sys...
- now type the following: echo the second line > wakka.txt
This will create a wakka.txt file containing the text "the second line"
- then, type the following: copy msdos.sys + wakka.txt msdos.sys
When prompted, allow the system to overwrite msdos.sys
This will add wakka.txt to the end of msdos.sys, producing the following line:

the first line of the file
the second line

- again, type the following two commands:
echo the third line > wakka.txt
copy msdos.sys + wakka.txt msdos.sys
This will yield the following text in msdos.sys:

the first line of the file
the second line
the third line

- repeat this process for each line you would like to add to the file!!


Most of you may never use this, and I bet most of you forget this tomorrow, but this same issue has come up twice today, so I think it may be helpful. Have fun!

I would like to close this email with a final note on Frodo. As you may or may not remember, Frodo escaped from the building this past week, and flew off. I am still a little shaken up over all this, and really don't want to talk about it further. Stop sending flowers, he was just a bird. And as a note to whoever left a three pound bag of birdseed on my desk, you aren't as funny as you think you are.

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