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Single user set up and multiple identities
You can find out what program is using which port with the Netstat command line tool and Windows Task Manager. For directions on how to do it, up your XP desktop manually all these years, but there's a faster way - you can use the Desktop Cleanup Wizard that's built into the OS to remove unwanted shortcuts.

Mac OS just sucks -- "ease of use" = "lack of freedom" ?
Easy-to use menus, pop-up help, and (mostly LaTeX) help built-in. I have been using TeX/emacs for 6 months now full-time. I come from a background of WordPerfect WELL, when printing you are allowed to edit the command line of dvips, inserting a -pp command. Alternatively, you can run LaTeX on a region (where a

Extracting registry info to textfile in DOS
You need to tell Ubuntu which repositories to use, and you do that by editing this list. Any repository (the lines starting with 'deb') that is commented out (with ## at the start of the line) will not be used. We want all the repositories available, so uncomment them all (you'll find that most, but not all,

Removing & reinstalling Web conferencing component
I found Unix to be archaic when I had to use it. Besides, if I want to script and command line, I prefer DCL on VMS. Now thats an OS. Much securer than Linux too. I even used to program in TPU. Once upon a time I liked to program my own editor. Why do you suppose MS has finally come out with a telnet server?

Microsoft is coming to town... TOMORROW Tues. Oct 23/01
My mom still calls me every now and again if she's having problems with their computer at home. Working for the CS Dept. at UAH, I do the same. Yeah, I know a lot of people who use command lines for printing color separations. Say, where's the GUI in Live Picture? How about in NetFusion's package? Ooops.

Finally!!!
You can run Shutdown from the command line if you know how. From there, the program will give you parameters. For most of us Win XP folks, it would be silly to Now do the same thing again but this time instead of ``-s'' type ``-r'' for reboot. You now have shortcuts to shutdown and reboot on the desktop.

Launching programs from PowerPoint Presentation
RAR and WinRAR are now able to store NTFS data streams. It is especially important under Windows 2000, which uses streams to keep some file dependent information such as file descriptions. Use switch -os to enable the storing of streams from the command line or set the option "Save file streams" in the "Archive

Any Folder Powertoy Add-on Installation.
... check my entire drive for certain shortcuts like this: dir *blah*.lnk /s This gives me a list of all those .lnk files but i now want to replace each file with Read the extensive help for the FOR IN DO statement by typing the command: for /? A one-line FOR IN DO command should do. Typical syntax to use: for

Using Sas Code to zip datasets
David Candy dav...@sia.net.au microsoft public win98 shell Scanreg /win is the command I would use. Can't use scanreg now to look but I image it gives you a list of your last 5. It's supposed to. <nothing> Checks the registry and asks do you want to back it up. RegistryFile The registry file to check.

IDE for C++: KDevelop vs Emacs vs Other
I can do that using the Start menu or by double clicking the file itself from Windows Explorer. I use IE 5-something. But I can't get Agent to launch it from a message using The address in the browser says: C:\Program Files\Agent\Data\temp\TEMP.htm BTW, in shortcuts on the "command line" the URL is in quotes.

2008-02-11
Network This key stores subkeys that describe current and recent network shortcuts. RemoteAccess The settings of Remote Access are stored here. Software Contains all software Before write a new .reg file, make sure you do this else you will get an error message. Command Line Registry Arguments FILENAME.

From MacOS to Amiga and the history of MIDI on the PC
Is there a way to do this? Sure. Make separate shortcuts (or icons in Win 3.x) for each user, with the command line pointing to a eudora.ini file specific to that user. The added advantage of this method is that you can use another command line parameter to keep all copies of downloaded and sent mail in a different

Why do people say this about Bill Gates.
Now, as to command lines in general, I'm not averse to them. I use them when I need to. But my Mac now provides a GUI (two if I were to try to get X Windows running, which I understand can now be done) and a command line. Heck, if I need to do scripting, I can use shell scripts, AppleScript, and even Perl.

Remove programs from teh Add/Remove list
I don't, but I do want the flexibility which DOS could give me. Being able to launch programs with complex command line arguments would give me an ability their apps are now part of the operating system I include some M$ apps to a certain degree. I use whatever apps I want. Everything runs on Win32. Even SRLN.

Users and source code?
Files in open formats will be good to use on any platform many many years from now. Proprietary files, no matter how widely used, can be rendered obsolete Unlike wzzip (command line add-on for WinZip), Gzip will recursively compress all files from all subfolders with a single command line (an additional letter,

the graphical interface is hard to use!
What I've described here is what Exceed and Exodus usually do. But there are shortcuts and other options in OSX, since it's real unix. If you use rsh to On your end you can do that most easily in your ~/.ssh/config file. You can also do it on a case by case basis with the command line option -X. See 'man ssh'.

Command-line utilities
You may now, in any Explorer window, right-click on a database file, click on the "Compact with MS Access 97" option (seated immediately below the "open" action), and it will open, compact, and then close the database as if you had typed it all in at the command-line yourself. Pete A very good tip,

APPLE DISCONTINUES LICENSING!!!!
Check the properties of all the shortcuts in the Start Menu, Programs, Startup folder. If a command line has spaces in it, it needs to be enclosed in quotes. I did recently install that, but had to do a rollback for other reasons. When I log into MSN and click the Intellisynch icon within it, I get the download

"for %%a in" Question
It can be specified separately, by use of a parameter.) If there are two ini files, XP permissions was just one reason I threw out to account for there(sp?) being two of them. When I said in my previous post that I had two versions of the startup command in different shortcuts, that was true**, but the difference

Easy or Powerful or BOTH?
If this happens, MasterBrowse will simply use default colours. NEW FEATURE: MasterBrowse now allows you to control dialog boxes with the keyboard; The ARGV, xArg, and standard command line formats are supported. o MasterBrowse supports the View Protocol, by Peter Seitz, which allows other programs to instruct