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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Common Dos commands you need to know


Need to know about dos commands.Confused of the basic dos commands .Here are some of the basic dos commands you need to know. These are very simple to implement. just try them out in DoS promt.

ATTRIB

displays or changes file attributes

CHDIR or CD

displays the name of the current directory or changes the current directory

CHKDSK

checks the status of a disk and displays a status report; it can also fix disk errors

CLS

clears the screen

COPY

copies one or more files to a destination you specify

DEL

deletes the files you specify

DELTREIE

deletes a directory and all the files and subdirectories that are in it

DIR

displays the files and subdirectories that are in the directory you specify

DISKCOPY

copies the entire contents of one floppy disk to another floppy disk. It writes over the existing contents of the destination disk as it copies the new information on it.

ECHO

displays or hides the text in batch programs when the program is running.

EDIT

starts MS-DOS Editor, a text editor you can use to create and edit ASCII text files.

DEL or ERASE

deletes the files you specify

EXIT

quits the MS-DOS command interpreter and returns to the program that started it, if one exists.

FASTHELP

displays a list of all MS-DOS 6 commands and gives a short explanation of each.

FIND

searches for a specific string of text in a file or files

FORMAT

formats a disk for use with MS-DOS

HELP

starts MS-DOS Help

MKDIR or MD

creates a directory

MEM

displays the amount of used and free memory on your computer

MORE

displays one screen of output at a time

MOVE

moves one or more files to the location you specify

MSBACKUP

backs up or restores one or more files from one disk onto another

MSD

Provides technical information about your computer

PRINT

prints a text file while you are using other MS-DOS commands

QBASIC

starts MS-DOS Qbasic

RD or RMDIR

deletes a directory

REN

changes the name of the file or files you specify

RMDIR or RD

deletes a directory

SCANDISK

starts a disk analysis and repair tool that checks a drive for errors and corrects any problems that it finds.

TREIE

graphicaly displays the structure of a directory

UNDELETE

restores files that were deleted previously by using the DEL command

VER

displays the MS-DOS version number

XCOPY

copies directories , their subdirectories, and files except hidden and system files.

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