Re: W95 install help

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From: William Van Tuyl (wvantuyl_at_iso.net)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 21:43:25 EST

Question. What is the advantage of using C:\Windows\Options\Cabs versus a
directory off the root?

TIA Bill

"Dave W. Beauvais" wrote:

> No, the files will be copied to C:\Windows\Options\Cabs since that is
> the current directory on the C: drive. If I'd said to copy the files to
> C:\, THEN, they'd go to the root. You can see this by doing the
> following:
>
> At a DOS prompt, change to some random directory. Then, change to
> another drive. Then just change back to the first drive. You'll be back
> in the same directory you were originally.
>
> Dave
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James H. E. Maugham [mailto:CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 06:31 PM
> > To: davewb0_at_yahoo.com; jbrush_at_aros.net; ThinkPad Mailing List
> > Subject: RE: W95 install help
> >
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > Dave W. Beauvais [mailto:davewb0_at_yahoo.com] wrote:
> >
> > > c:
> > > md \windows
> > > md \windows\options
> > > md \windows\options\cabs
> > > cd \windows\options\cabs
> > > d:
> > > cd \win95
> > > copy *.* c:
> >
> > I believe that will copy the files to the C: ROOT.
> [snip]

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