ok first off if you want to know what the "/u/s/q" or any switch like that meens type the command and /? ( format /? ) it will give you a list of all possible switchs or get an old dos reference book or down load dos6.22 from me and then unzip the cabs and copy over the help files it has a very good help system that explains all the commands and gives examples and notes on how to use them. hope that helped Mouffe

the_rock thanks for the sugestion and i like your quote.

Lv4 i'm running win98 and most commands from other dos ver still work some have been changed and it gives me a warning that i'm useing and outdated command. how much do the newer ver of windows even use dos for any thing?

always got a kick out of the command line being format c: /s/u/q hehe, yes it was juvenile
i dont get the joke the only thing it looks like to me is "slug" maybe i'm just to old