I haven't followed this complete thread, but it sounds like the original
poster (Jim) is doing a Start/Shutdow/Restart in dos mode, which is the
third thing on the list of shutdown options if I recall correctly (I'm
running 2000, so I'm not sure).

What he wants to do from there, I have no clue.

Rick


At 12:31 AM 2/8/2002 -0800, Al wrote:
>I also don't understand your question. What "third one in the list of
>things" are you talking about? (Quote
>it). There is no shutdown command from a dos prompt (??). You can simply
>turn the power off from a dos prompt
>unless windows is still running, in which case you close the dos window,
>and shutdown from within windows.
>
>Al Thompson
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Prettyman"
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] no dos prompt
>
>
> > When I try to shut down and select the dos prompt selection the third one
> > in the
> > list of things, it just goes to the blinking curser that I described.
> > Thanks
> >

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