Many, Many years ago I believe I could enter a command that displayed the contents of a text file on the screen without opening and holding onto the file like an editor would do today. Is there any way to do that in Windows Vista today?
BTW, I used to use VAX computers a lot and it just occurred to me that maybe that was where I was able to do that!
Thanks,
Bill
Display Text File on-Screen
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HansV
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Re: Display Text File on-Screen
The Notepad application that comes with Windows opens a text file without locking it - you can delete the file in Windows Explorer while it's open in Notepad.
Best wishes,
Hans
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John Gray
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Re: Display Text File on-Screen
If you open a Command Prompt window in the appropriate directory/folder you could do either
type thefile.txt
or
more < thefile.txt
(you choose!)...
type thefile.txt
or
more < thefile.txt
(you choose!)...
John Gray
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BillW
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Re: Display Text File on-Screen
I hadn't realized that! Thanks Hans.HansV wrote:The Notepad application that comes with Windows opens a text file without locking it - you can delete the file in Windows Explorer while it's open in Notepad.
John: Is there any way to combine the opening of the command prompt window and issuing the Type command, all from one .BAT file? Thanks for the suggestion in in any case.
Bill