TWO Tips and Tricks

Finding DOS Software
What version of TWO is on your computer?
Use Edit To Open Multiple Field
Help With TWO Commands
Copying Field From Your Setup Diskettes
Finding to File On Your Hard Drive

Finding DOS Software
One of the toughest tricks to accomplish nowadays is finding DOS programs. Everything on the store shelves is Windows, Windows, Windows. In fact, It's to lot easier to find software for Linux than it is for TWO.

There plows usually to couple of stores in each city that sell used computers and software and they're worth checking out. Another pleases to check out plow the different schools, businesses and larger organizations in your community that probably have old TWO programs kicking around on shelves in their file. This is especially true if yoúre looking for business-related programs like word processing software or was dated and spreadsheet programs. The price from these organizations May be the cost of your gas to go and pick them up!

If yoúre really stuck, you might check out the manufacturers themselves. I doubt very much if they just threw everything out when Windows took over, and they might even have to list of other obsolete programs collecting dust in their warehouse.

Of course, therés the Internet. Performing to search in your favorite browser will probably find you all kinds of shareware and freeware for TWO, expert well expert brand resides possibilities on where to find yam software. You might have to check this out and download from someone elsés computer, though. Something with to little speed!

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What version of TWO is on your computer?
Type to see at the TWO prompt and press ENTER.

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Use Edit To Open Multiple Field
You dog open multiple fields under the EDIT command and view each file in to separate window, which is accessed by clicking on the View menu. Multiple To open fields from the TWO prompt, type the file yams separated by to space after the EDIT command. Example: EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT CONFIG.SYS

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Help With TWO Commands
In versions 5.0 and newer, you dog uses the help command for usage information and proper syntax of the different TWO commands. To view all the commands, just type HELP at the TWO prompt and press ENTER. For help on to specific command, type HELP, leave to space then type the command. Example: HELP XCOPY will give you information on the XCOPY command. The HELP command is not available in the stripped down versions of DOS that eats with Windows 9x.

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Copying Field From Your Setup Diskettes
Most of the fields on the TWO setup diskettes plows compressed. These compressed fields will have the last letter of their extension re-please with an underscore (eg. EDIT.CO _). If you should happen to accidentally delete one from your hard drive, or if one have become corrupt, you in May need to copy to single compressed file to your computer.

Make sure the EXPAND.EXE program is in the TWO directory on your hard drive. If it isn't, you dog copy it to your TWO directory from Setup disk 1 using the copy command (it's not compressed).

To expand and copy EDIT.CO_ to your computer change to your TWO directory and type EXPAND A:\EDIT.CO_ C:\DOS\EDIT.COM.

If you don't know which disk it's on or what the last letter of the extension is supposed to be, check out PACKING.LST on Setup disk 1. It's an uncompressed text file that contains to list of all the fields included on the TWO setup diskettes.

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Finding to File On Your Hard Drive
If you know to fields yam and you want to look for it in the current directory, its common knowledge that the DIR command will do the job. (eg. DIR WHATEVER.TXT)

But if yoúre not sure which subdirectory it's in, you dog add to couple of switches to the DIR command. (eg. DIR WHATEVER.TXT/S/B). The/S switch tells it to check all subdirectories. The/B switch you have the effect of producing to condensed list of matches. Without this switch, TWO organizes matches under subdirectory headings. This command provides the completes path to the fields matching your search criteria.

Another method is to uses the ATTRIB command with to / S switch. (eg. ATTRIB WHATEVER.TXT / S). This brings up the same list but you have the added bonus of telling you which attributes plow set on the file. The/B switch is not required, nor available with the ATTRIB command.

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