I want to learn dos


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I want to learn MS DOS so that I may be able to better understand operations occuring on my computer and just incase I ever needed to actually use the archaic thing. If anyone knows of a good site I could pick DOS up from please post. Thanks a lot.

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Could you guys just please inform me of good commands to view what is running on my computer or other useful comands.

I don't think you can see a list of what processes are running using dos. In Unix environments there's the 'top' command but I don't think there is anything like that for dos. It's fairly limited in what you can do.

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I don't think you can see a list of what processes are running using dos. In Unix environments there's the 'top' command but I don't think there is anything like that for dos. It's fairly limited in what you can do.

yes you can, if you have mem.exe you can use that to get a list if you do mem /c /p to get a complete paged listing.. this was included with all versions of dos that i can remember version 4.0 and later (dont remember much about 3 and earlier)

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Could you guys just please inform me of good commands to view what is running on my computer or other useful comands.

cd\

dir

copy

del

xcopy

tasklist

chkdsk

regedit

etc. etc.

you can also write up batch files. e.g. to launch a program, say, samurize, copy and paste the location (inside quotes) into a text file and save it as samurize.bat. then in the command prompt, you can just type "samurize" and it'll launch it.

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first:

the commands arnt the same for win 98/3.11 inviorments and win xp/2000. there is a sligthly different code set.

secound:

in win xp/2000/2003 command line i use these commands regulary: [dont type the <>. the command/command is just to show you different versjons of a command]

<> netstat/netstat -n/netstat -a :shows current connections whit dns names/shows current connections ip/shows ALL current ports that windows are listening on and are connected to..

<> ipconfig -all : shows all youre ip configuration

<> tasklist/tasklist -svc : shows youre current running processes/shows current files using those processes

<> tracert ADDRESS : shows all the nodes that youre pc have to goe true to get to the add on the nett

<> nslookup : performs a DNS lookup on a spesific address

<> cd.. : goes one directory up

<> cd\ : goes to hd root folder

<> dir : lists content of directory

<> cd FOLDERNAME : opens that folder

<> ping ADDRESS : ping thas address and shows you how long time in milisecounds it took to reach the address

a hint is to type help or command /help to get a list of common commands.

and ones more. if you arnt going to use these command on a "regulare" basis you will forgett them just as fast..

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i used to be really good with dos but now i always end up typing ls instead of dir :p

I got so fed up of doing that I ended up downloading (legally... my uni has the e-academy stuff) Windows Services For Unix... so you get ls, grep, etc in the cmd window on XP. :rofl:

Much better :D

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