Easily into DOS

✍ Scribed by Peter Gosling (auth.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 78
• Series: Macmillan Modern Office
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
About this Book....Pages 1-1
What is DOS?....Pages 2-3
File names and extensions, the DIR command, DIR/W, DIR/P, changing disks, wildcards....Pages 4-11
The COPY command....Pages 12-15
The DEL command....Pages 16-18
Directories, sub-directories, the CD command, the MD command, the RMDIR command....Pages 19-23
The DATE, TIME, TYPE and REN commands....Pages 24-29
Changing the DOS prompt using PROMPT....Pages 30-32
The FORMAT program, FORMAT/S, FORMAT/V, FORMAT/B and the SYS program....Pages 33-37
The DISKCOPY program, the DISKCOMP program....Pages 38-40
The CHKDSK program, CHKDSK/F....Pages 41-44
The EDLIN line editor, editing, listing and creating files using EDLIN....Pages 45-49
The TREE program, TREE/F, the MORE filter....Pages 50-54
Using SORT, sorting directories, sorting a file....Pages 55-59
Creating a batch file, using EDLIN to create a batch file, using COPY CON to create a batch file, running a batch file, the AUTOEXEC file....Pages 60-64
Editing DOS command lines....Pages 65-67
Common DOS Error Messages....Pages 68-68
Summary of DOS External Commands....Pages 69-70
Back Matter....Pages 71-71

✦ Subjects

Computer Engineering