Stilly -

If you have Win2000 Pro, you can go to Start - Help. Select the index tab and type "Command." On the list that comes up, select "command-line help," and then related topics - "command-line help main page." There you will find a list of all commands that can be run from the "command line" which is the new "equivalent" of DOS. There are a whole bunch of things that were never in earlier versions of DOS.

You can also select "What's New and Different from DOS" to get a full description of commands that were deleted/omitted, commands that were added, and what the commands do differently - and won't have to rely on "what you heard." It's really quite painless, and you may find something new that you can use.

I haven't been there recently in Win2000, but the only "commonly used" command I can think of that went away is DELTREE, and you can do that much more safely in Win Explorer since you can "spread the branches" to see more clearly what you're deleting. DELTREE could be hazardous enough that I usually stepped through emptying each folder individually and then just used RD anyhow.

Artbrooks - good suggestion, and the IG is usually "the man" for problems inside the military, however YPG is a very small installation and probably doesn't have a resident IG officer. Anything sent to YPG addressed to the IG would probably have to be forwarded (and might even be "filtered") by the resident staff, so I'd suggest just writing to the Commanding Officer YPG and/or to the public site webmaster. (If you write to both, they'll undoubtedly discuss it at weekly staff meeting.) Contacts for both are on the YPG Public Web Site. Contact (email) the webadmin on any page, or click on the "Command Staff" button on the left for others.

Ireland - It's probably no consolation to you, but I have one email account that gets, on average, a little over 300 spam messages per week, including at least 2 or 3 dozen for DVD copy scams. My discussion with others indicate that this is not unusual, and there is little you can do once "they" get your address - short of changing your address. Since you have only one cockroach, you may be able to get it stopped, but ANY response to spam merely confirms that the address is "live" and increases the likelihood that it will be sold and distributed to more spammers. If you start getting more - DELETE and IGNORE.

John