Cool dos Commands?

[nonamebrandeggs]

Lets hear yours, my personal favourite is net send //domain <message>.

[Phlith]

format c:
nbtstat
netstat
deltree and some other shit i forget the rest

[\\Fényx//]

fdisk o_O

[J. Folsom]

Tracert's probably the one I use the most, along with ping.

And Phlit, after the top one you recommended, I'd usually put a "[name] is not responsible for any of the effects of using this command.", that way if someone tries it, you'll be les likely to get in trouble :P

[Spoon]

netstat....

[Phlith]

:D only in the right hands....

[lullysing]

in linux, i prefer...

(whatever) > /dev/null

[Archeus]

(warning dont do if a n00b)

Change the "CompletionCharacter" key in ...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor

to 9. Then open the dos box. you can then do something like

cd win<tab>
and it will cycle through looking for win* directory.

Also some versions of windows you can do cd win* and it finds the first one and changes.

or do "Help for". At the end of the help are really cool functions you can use to expand stuff in a batch file. Making life easy to write batch files.

[Eddie]

Heh.. mine's PROMPT.

I forget the exact commands, but you could make the "C:\Path>" appear as anything you wanted, including Date, Time, or whatnot. I remember sticking a really complicated one which displayed:

"Date: asdf
Time: asdf
Path: C:\Path
Your wish is my command >"

Just for amusement value.

Oh. And there's always good old ECHO.

And who could forget the classic quote "Bad command or filename" - which they changed in WinXP!! Damn them all.

Eddie

[Nidhogg]

Once you bring up a DOS box the best command to type in by far is the following:


C:\> exit

N

[Stigmata]

does neocron have any easter eggs ?

dos commands er.... prolly ipconfig i seem to using alot

Andy

[Mirco]

dir /s,w or p I think.

I remember deleting my fathers harddisk while playing around with del and deltree commands. That got me in trouble and therefor they are not my favourites.

Also I remember I had to use Keyb us before starting f-117 stealth fighter from microprose or whatever the game was. No norwegian keybord.

Most hated command.

Format a:

After preparing 80-100 floppy disks to copy quake from a friend. Man you young people who grew up on cd- burners, lucky bastards thats all I say.

[ronaz]

how about installing windows 95 from disks and finding that one of your last disks has errors.... o_O

[Judge]

ok, in my Dos menu thing on Win XP it comes up with:

C:\documents and settings\(username)>

How do I get it back to the proper?

C:\>

its pissing me off. grrrr

[\\Fényx//]

Originally posted by Judge
ok, in my Dos menu thing on Win XP it comes up with:

C:\documents and settings\(username)>

How do I get it back to the proper?

C:\>

its pissing me off. grrrr


be on the administrator account ?

[Richard Blade]

Hey Judge,
"cd.." usually works. Unless windows xp has some propriatary command structure.

(without the "")

Regards,
RB

[Omnituens]

/set god_mode 1

oh wait, you said DOS

oops.

[Archeus]

Originally posted by Nidhogg
Once you bring up a DOS box the best command to type in by far is the following:


C:\> exit

N

Depends a lot on what you do. Sorry but GUI doesn't cut it for a lot of things, it is only faster for people who can't type or know the commands.

You can also do really funky stuff easily.

[DartVader]

@judge
Open Properties from you MS-Dos Prompt Shortcut and change the Target-Folder to c:\
Then you will be on c:\ automatically when you open the DOS-Box.
If you want to change directory to root manually, just type cd \

best command for DOS?

@format c: /autotest > NUL

Should format your harddrive without asking. In a Batchfile you don't see the command because of the @-sign. The > NUL should redirect all output into NUL-Device, so you don't see the Progress ...

WARNING: DONT put this in your autoexec.bat *g*


/edit: your commands like net, netsend, netstat etc. are NOT DOS-Commands. That are Windows Commandline Programs, they won't run unter plain DOS.

[Rade]

Hawr. Niddy is not l33t. o_O

[StryfeX]

The best DOS command?

NET:D

--Stryfe

[Legoias]

Originally posted by DartVader
@judge
Open Properties from you MS-Dos Prompt Shortcut and change the Target-Folder to c:\
Then you will be on c:\ automatically when you open the DOS-Box.
If you want to change directory to root manually, just type cd \

best command for DOS?

@format c: /autotest > NUL

Should format your harddrive without asking. In a Batchfile you don't see the command because of the @-sign. The > NUL should redirect all output into NUL-Device, so you don't see the Progress ...

WARNING: DONT put this in your autoexec.bat *g*


/edit: your commands like net, netsend, netstat etc. are NOT DOS-Commands. That are Windows Commandline Programs, they won't run unter plain DOS.

This comes about from setting up user paths and stuff, like in NT4.0 without setting these up manually users were not promted to save files in their home directories (which could make a mess of profiles and stuff)

[nonamebrandeggs]

Is there a way to net send to people on the internet, instead of your network?

[Legoias]

Originally posted by nonamebrandeggs
Is there a way to net send to people on the internet, instead of your network?

Nope.

---edit---

just found this: http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20020923_net_send_yet_another_type_of_spam.htm#000037

[whifix]

My favorite tool/command in dos;
fport

[phsoot]

Beep 10000 is one of my all time favs.
Makes you wanna hurt the pc beeper after a while

edit: only work oooold versions of dos

[kurai]

ping -f -s 64000

Oh ... wait ... wrong type of DoS :D

[Mankind]

the most often command used by me is /help.

[cracky]

cd windows\system
del *.dll

[wolfwood]

Originally posted by J. Folsom
Tracert's probably the one I use the most, along with ping.

And Phlit, after the top one you recommended, I'd usually put a "[name] is not responsible for any of the effects of using this command.", that way if someone tries it, you'll be les likely to get in trouble :P

bastard stealing my tracerts. i also liek netstats, and ping

[Rade]

Oh look its cracky. *tickles*


Ok seriously now I am going to bed.

[KRIMINAL99]

haha I remeber back in high school i programmed a computer to send the song that never ends message to all the library computers over and over again (Using qbasic and a primitive dos message system for their IBM network) so they couldnt be used... (press enter to continue)

Almost got banned from school for a week but convinced the principle it wasnt me.

Ok heres my fav dos command... cd progra~1\neocron\
del *.*