Off Topic - Question for ye olde computer geeks

Jmenschenfresser · #1 July 24th, 2002, 11:03 PM

dir/p or w or wp or something like that....been so long since I used dos for anything other than running programs.

Quikngruvn · #2 July 24th, 2002, 11:34 PM

Dir /p lists the files one page at a time. The /w switch lists several files in one row (the 'wide' option).

Besides, who cares about Scroll Lock? I just use it for the Print Screen function....

Quikngruvn

capnq · #3 July 25th, 2002, 12:31 AM

dir /o:gne will list the directories before the files, with each set in alphabetical order.

Suicide Junkie · #4 July 25th, 2002, 01:34 AM

The pause and printscreen buttons are right beside the scroll lock button. They aren't the same button.

Some current uses for the button:
http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/pr...000289,00.html

I'll also have to try writing a program that toggles the scroll lock light, in order to blink out subliminal Messages in binary.

Fyron · #5 July 25th, 2002, 01:44 AM

I'll also have to try writing a program that toggles the scroll lock light, in order to blink out subliminal Messages in binary.

LOL!

minipol · #6 July 25th, 2002, 01:47 AM

dir | more would do the trick too

Puke · #7 July 25th, 2002, 04:34 AM

regarding blinking subliminal Messages with the scroll lock light:

if any one remembers 'MOD' files, they were an old form of digitized music files that worked by taking a small handfull of sound samples and replaying them in a variety of volumes, keys, pitches, and durations. someone will probably tell me that i know nothing about sound waves and that key and pitch are the same thing, but that person can bugger off.

anyway, these were popular downloads for a while in the mid 90s on BBS's and such. there were a variety of MOD players that featured ambiant graphics, dancing people, or other effects that played to the music. I had one that made ANSI/ASCII collored effects on the screen, while blinking the caps-scroll-numlock lights as well as the turbo-HDD-power lights in time with the music.

all these newfangled MP3 recorders and media players and jazz pale in comparison to the clever enginutiy that went into older software. everyone probably feels this way, but it seems to me that i grew late enough in history to see some of the greatest inovation mankind has ever concieved, and early enough not to be blunted by its umbiquitousness. now i just need the world to end so the next generation does not one-up me.