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Contents
DOS AND THE PERSONAL COMPUTER | 11 |
STARTING DOS | 23 |
USING DOS COMMANDS | 41 |
USING THE DOS SHELL | 57 |
FILES AND DIRECTORIES | 97 |
UNDERSTANDING FILES AND DIRECTORIES | 99 |
UNDERSTANDING DISKS AND DISK DRIVES | 127 |
PREPARING AND MAINTAINING DISKS | 149 |
UNDERSTANDING BATCH FILES | 389 |
UNDERSTANDING ANSISYS | 415 |
MASTERING DOSKEY AND MACROS | 431 |
CONFIGURING YOUR COMPUTER | 441 |
NETWORKING DOS | 471 |
CONNECTING TO THE INTERNET | 483 |
THIRDPARTY UTILITIES | 493 |
APPENDIXES | 501 |
MANAGING YOUR FILES | 191 |
PROTECTING YOUR DATA | 231 |
CONTROLLING DOS | 273 |
WORKING WITH SYSTEM INFORMATION | 275 |
CONTROLLING YOUR ENVIRONMENT | 293 |
USING PERIPHERALS | 307 |
CONTROLLING DEVICES | 317 |
UNDERSTANDING THE INTERNATIONAL FEATURES OF DOS | 339 |
MAXIMIZING DOS | 359 |
USING THE DOS EDITOR | 361 |
FILES SUPPLIED WITH MSDOS 622 | 503 |
DOS ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES | 519 |
DOS MESSAGES | 529 |
DOS AND DOS UTILITY PROGRAMS KEYBOARD COMMANDS | 563 |
ASCII AND EXTENDED ASCII CODES | 573 |
COMMAND REFERENCE | 583 |
GLOSSARY | 957 |
INDEX | 963 |
Common terms and phrases
ANSI.SYS App F ASCII AUTOEXEC AUTOEXEC.BAT backup batch file boot buffer bytes Chapter characters CHKDSK color command line COMMAND.COM compressed drive CONFIG.SYS file configuration conventional memory copy create current directory cursor DBLSPACE default DEFRAG device driver DEVICEHIGH dialog box disk drive DISKCOPY display DOSKEY DoubleSpace drive letter EDIT Editor enables environment variable error message ERRORLEVEL example execute extended memory FDISK filename floppy disk following command format hard disk HIMEM installed Interlnk INTERLNK.EXE keyboard label LATER-EXTERNAL load macro mand MemMaker menu Microsoft MODE mouse MS-DOS MSAV MSBACKUP Notes option Parameters and Switches path pathname press Enter printer prompt RAM disk redirection root directory SCANDISK screen serial port server Setup Shell SMARTDrive space specified startup subdirectory Syntax UNDELETE UNFORMAT upper memory utility wildcards Windows XCOPY
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