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Old 14th Oct 2018, 11:58 pm   #40
SiriusHardware
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Default Re: 486 PC. Keyboard problem.

Just to add: If you type a DOS command which generates more than a screen of output which promptly flies off up the screen out of sight, then appending /P to the end of the command will make it display each page with a pause. Press a key (possibly space, possibly just any key) to get it to move to the next page.

Example:

DIR /P will display the contents of the current directory page by page until all of the contents of the directory have been shown.

With the MODE command I think you can limit the amount of output from that by entering

MODE COM1:

In which case it will only generate information specific to that COM port.
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