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LEARNING DOS FOR THE COMPLETE NOVICE, 2nd Edition
copyright 1993 by Steven Woas
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I Introduction
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
What is DOS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
What does DOS do?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Assumptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Part II Groundwork
How to Read this Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Special Keyboard Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Special Key Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Introductory Computer Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Questions and Answers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Part III DOS Basics
Starting DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Getting Out of a Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting the Date and Time. . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Your DOS Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Clearing the Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Changing to a Different Drive. . . . . . . . . . 30
Turning the Computer Off . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Diskettes and Write Protection . . . . . . . . . 32
5¼" Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3½" Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Displaying a Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Making Sense of a Directory Listing. . . . . . . 38
Extensions--The Key to Computing Success . . . . 39
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Viewing Text Files on the Screen . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using the DOS TYPE Command . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Use EDIT with DOS 5 or Later . . . . . . . . . . 48
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Printing Text Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Printing Graphic Screens
With DOS 3.3 and Earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
With DOS 4.0 and Later . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
The CHKDSK Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
The MEM Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Formatting Diskettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Formatting Commands with
DOS 4.0 and Later. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
The Unconditional Format . . . . . . . . 63
The Quick Format Command . . . . . . . . 63
The Unformat Command . . . . . . . . . . 64
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Formatting a Disk with the System on it. . . . . 67
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Copying
Copying a Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Copying a File with only One Floppy Drive. . . . 74
Copying a File Between Two Floppy Drives . . . . 75
Copying Files Using Wildcards. . . . . . . . . . 77
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Copying a 5¼" Disk to a 3½" Disk . . . . . . . . 80
Copying a 3½" Disk to a 5¼" Disk . . . . . . . . 82
Copying a Group of Files to
Multiple Diskettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Deleting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Deleting with Wildcards. . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Undeleting Files with DOS 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
File Name Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Renaming Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Part IV Hard Drive Fundamentals
Directories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Directory Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Getting to the Root Directory. . . . . . . . . . 97
Root Directory Philosophy. . . . . . . . . . . . 99
The Tree Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Making a Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Changing Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Displaying the Current Directory . . . . . . . .103
Creating a Text File Using COPY CON. . . . . . .103
Removing a Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Deleting Files on a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . .109
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Tips and Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Installing Software on a Hard Drive. . . . . . . . .118
Copying a Diskette to a Hard Drive . . . . . . .119
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Copying a File to Your Hard Drive. . . . . . . .123
The ASSIGN Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Copying Files From Your Hard Drive
To Floppy Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Copying File by File . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Copying Using Wildcards. . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Copying an Entire Directory to a Floppy Disk . .130
Copying a Directory Requiring
Multiple Target Disks. . . . . . . . . . . .131
Copying Files Between Directories. . . . . . . .134
Copying with Full Path Specifications. . . . . .134
A Much Simpler Way . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Copying Entire Subdirectories
to Other Subdirectories and Drives . . . . .136
Copying a Directory with Subdirectories
to Another Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
How to Make Simple Batch Files . . . . . . . . . . .141
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
The PATH Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Setting Your PATH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
The AUTOEXEC.BAT File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
Making a Bootable Floppy Disk. . . . . . . . . .149
Backing Up the Root Directory
of Your C Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Modifying an Existing AUTOEXEC.BAT File. . . . .151
Making a New AUTOEXEC.BAT File . . . . . . . . .153
Removing a Menu or Shell from
the AUTOEXEC.BAT File. . . . . . . . . . . .154
How to Make a Program Start
Automatically from a Diskette. . . . . . . .154
The CONFIG.SYS File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Viewing a CONFIG.SYS File. . . . . . . . . . . .156
Making a New CONFIG.SYS File with COPY CON . . .157
Making a CONFIG.SYS File
with an Editor or Word Processor . . . . . .159
Modifying a CONFIG.SYS File. . . . . . .