Miles Prower Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 does anyone know any cool dos commands? Or any dos commands in general? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 area91 Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 I really need to learn them (Dos commands), my freinds @ Microsoft made fun of me, beacuse I forgot how to do something (make a folder via the command line) right before a big presentation.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 markwolfe Veteran Posted June 6, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 6, 2004 I kept my DOS reference books from earlier PC purchases (back when it was DOS + Win 3.11). There are a LOT of useful things you can do with DOS. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Squirrelington Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 mkdir dirname - Makes a dir called dirname cd dirname - Enters a dir called dirname edit file.txt - edits a file called file.txt fdisk - partition wizard for dos format - formats a disk drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dogan Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 just type "help" (without "") in the command window to see a list of commands :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Bearded Kirklander Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 just type "help" (without "") in the command window to see a list of commands :) Yep, we have a winner. :) That should do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 lime Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 typing help doesn't do everything though...for example it doesn't show netstat and that's an acceptable command.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 John Veteran Posted June 7, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 7, 2004 I think help just shows the build in commands. Things like netstat are executables included with Windows. Also, DOS doesn't have networking support, so netstat would be useless without Windows :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Apollo Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 the only one you'll need is format c: /q ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hosiah Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 just type "help" (without "") in the command window to see a list of commands huh? In Windows 98, typing "help" at the Ms-Dos prompt just gets me "bad command or filename". In fact, Dos seems to have been lobotomized by Windows. I have Windows NT right in front of me, and the owner and I can't dig into the Dos prompt at all, even in safe mode! I was just trying to monkey around with Dos this week, (wanting to use some of the Dos programs I've been learning to write in C) and discovered that when you try to look up some commands in the Ms-Dos manual (to find out what the name/format is), it directs you to the page that tells you "just type the name of the command followed by the '/?' and it'll tell you all about that command"...which you can't do if you don't know the exact name of the command in the first place! Endless fun! I'd suggest using Windows 95 or older, which has a fully functional Dos, or other platforms have Dos. Windows Dos programming will probably be in BASIC, anyway. -Hos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +primortal Subscriber² Posted June 7, 2004 Subscriber² Share Posted June 7, 2004 typing help doesn't do everything though...for example it doesn't show netstat and that's an acceptable command.... lime, netstat is a windows command line utility not a DOS command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted June 7, 2004 Subscriber² Share Posted June 7, 2004 Help works fine under XP - which is not even DOS, but a command window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Zirus Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 my favorite is the "systeminfo" command. As far as I know it only works on xp though. I could be wrong. It gives some awesome info though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Radium Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 mkdir dirname - Makes a dir called dirnamecd dirname - Enters a dir called dirname edit file.txt - edits a file called file.txt fdisk - partition wizard for dos format - formats a disk drive "md" instead of "mkdir" works just fine... well, at least the last time I created a directory in MS-DOS. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Bearded Kirklander Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 Google should have a ton of links on MS DOS command summaries, don't you think? Searching Google should be the first step on stuff like this, maybe. http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm Yep. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dougkinzinger Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 There are two: HELP and GOOGLE ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 LlamaTrauma Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 My favorite useless command is color. "Color xx" where xx is a number in hex. Pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mr.dan Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 I really need to learn them (Dos commands), my freinds @ Microsoft made fun of me, beacuse I forgot how to do something (make a folder via the command line) right before a big presentation.... your friends at MS? a big presentation? you're 14! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 John Veteran Posted June 12, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 12, 2004 There are two:HELP and GOOGLE ;) Google isn't a command line app :p :trout: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 anthonycara Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 ---------ILOVETHIS.BAT--------- @ECHO OFF :HEHE NET SEND * FCUK YOU GOTO HEHE :shifty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Bearded Kirklander Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 From this site: http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm It reminded me of ATTRIB and EDLIN and DEBUG. EDLIN was hard to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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