Hi,


What I am going to tell you may become reduntant, when we receive
ABAQUS/CAE for NT. Till then, you may find this useful.

Regards

Thiru
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Some applications still need DOS window for running them. ABAQUS is one
of them.

  
With the default NT setup DOS window can be created from the Desktop Start menu.

and with the default ABAQUS setup, your working directory set.

Then, before running the application concerned you need to go to a particular 
directory.  With the default setup, this can be done in two ways.

Method (1) 

	(a) First create the DOS window from Start Menu
	(b) Type the command cd  <directory>

In my case directory is usually a long string. If I make a typing mistake, 
I need to redo (b) again. Of course you can edit it using the arrow keys.
  

Method (2) 	
	(a) First create the DOS window from Start Menu
	(b) Type cd in DOS window
	(c) From NT explorer, drag the Directory to the DOS window
	(d) Press RETURN



Instead of (1) and (2) I found it very convenient and useful to create the DOS 
window from explorer.
  
To do that, you must configure  Windows NT Explorer.

This can be done by:: 

(a) Start Windows NT Explorer
(b) 
>From Explorer menu bar 
	Choose view/Options 
	click on the File Types tab 
	Select File/ Folder from Registered file types:
	click on Edit - this will produce another dialogue box
			named Edit File Type
	click on New - from Edit File Type dialogue box. This will
			produce another dialogue box named New Action
	Fill in the New Action dialog box and save the changes. 

		Action - you could type Open an Ms Dos Window
		Application used to perform action:
			C:\WINNT\system32\CMD.EXE

		click on OK
	click on OK
click on OK




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