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Ms Dos Commands


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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....

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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:

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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

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just type "help" (without "") in the command window to see a list of commands :)

Yep, we have a winner. :) That should do the trick.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

"md" instead of "mkdir" works just fine... well, at least the last time I created a directory in MS-DOS. :D

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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!

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@ECHO OFF
:HEHE
NET SEND * FCUK YOU
GOTO HEHE

:shifty:

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