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DeWayfarer 路 61-69, M
If you happen to remember the bad old DOS days, top of a listing could often scroll off the screen. That key was to stop that from happening on IBMDOS. It first came out on the IBM AT keyboard. Unfortunately few small programs actually monitored that key stroke like the MSDOS dir command didn't. IMBDOS actually did use it.
Eventually a pause (dir /p) option was put in on MSDOS. And IBMDOS became extinct. Yet today's keyboards are all modelled on IBM AT keyboards. Even the IBM PSII keyboard had that scroll lock key.
However before the "/p" option we had to use the pipe operator to prevent that from happening on MSDOS.
Dir|more
Since
Dir > more
wouldn't work either.
Lots of useless knowledge from back then. 馃槥
Eventually a pause (dir /p) option was put in on MSDOS. And IBMDOS became extinct. Yet today's keyboards are all modelled on IBM AT keyboards. Even the IBM PSII keyboard had that scroll lock key.
However before the "/p" option we had to use the pipe operator to prevent that from happening on MSDOS.
Dir|more
Since
Dir > more
wouldn't work either.
Lots of useless knowledge from back then. 馃槥
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DeWayfarer 路 61-69, M
@twiigss used the /a:d /w later for wide and directory in my autoexec.bat and whole bunch of other stuff like spinning slashes with the prompt command.
twiigss 路 M
@DeWayfarer I took computer class in 10th grade in 1992, we learned COBOL.
It did nothing for me, I wish we could have learned C# or C++. Friend of mine went to DeVry college for 3 years for C++ and AS400, and he taught me C++ but that was over 20 years ago and I don't remember much of it anymore. I never really programmed with QBasic, but I have tried and I got the C64 Maxi that was released and am learning basic on there.
It did nothing for me, I wish we could have learned C# or C++. Friend of mine went to DeVry college for 3 years for C++ and AS400, and he taught me C++ but that was over 20 years ago and I don't remember much of it anymore. I never really programmed with QBasic, but I have tried and I got the C64 Maxi that was released and am learning basic on there.
DeWayfarer 路 61-69, M
@twiigss that would likely have been COBOL III. But believe me you can do worse than COBOL. RPG II was worse. 馃槚
Was programming in that in 1979 in a JC in Wyoming.
Was programming in that in 1979 in a JC in Wyoming.