Running a command on the command line

From BigSoft

Running a command on the command line is an important debugging aid and is one of the tasks you may be asked to perform.

1. Click the Start Button and select "Run..."

2. In the window type the following command and then click "OK"

cmd

3. This will open a command window

4. Here you will need the command you have been asked to run. In this case we will be running "ipconfig /all". We want to direct the output of this command to a file with a sensible name. We are going to use the date and a brief description of the command as the file name.

ipconfig /all > 2008-11-30-ipconfig-all.txt

5. A file called 2008-11-30-ipconfig-all.txt will have been created in the current directory.

6. If you know how to zip up a file, then please do that before attaching the file to the issue tracker. This file will serve as a record in case we see this issue again.