How to Use DOS?

Nowdays is not very common to see people using DOS but it is very interesting to see how easy and fast information, documents, and files can be find.

There are some important parts of DOS that every person should know in order to work on this program.

DOS means disk operating system. Originally developed by Microsoft for IBM (International Business Machines) MS-DOS was the standard operatin system for IBM-compatible personal computers.

OTHER FUCTIONS
With DOS you can create Directories (Dir) and subdirectories, and to find the files on them you can also:
handle the input or output (I/O)
run programs
keep track of files on the disk

DOS CONCEPTS


he DEFAULT DRIVE it is the currently logged drive. it is the drive where DOS would look for the information you need if you dont specify. To specify or change a drive type

c:\>a

it will change from drive c: to drive a:\>

COMMANDS

INTERNAL COMMANDS are the commands that are contained in command.com make sure to use the appropiate case( upper, lower)

some of these commands are
DIR
TYPE
DATE

EXTERNAL COMMANDS are the commands that are not contained in the program command.com it loads from the disk

some of these commands are
CHKDSK
DISKCOPY
FORMAT

RULES FOR DOS FILE NAMES
all files must follow this rules

• [description of which drive and/or directory to find the file] FILENAME [.EXTENSION] the extension is optional

e.j -notes.1 -command.com -wp.exe

• Before any optional extension there must be a period
• some acceptable characters for the extentions are A-Z 0-9 $ & @ ' () -^~

you should always keep in mind all the rules in order to write file names. workin with DOS is not difficult but rules should be follow. This is what DOS looks like:

HOW CAN YOU SEE FILES USING DOS?
in DOS use the DIR command which shows the files that are on the disk and that are internal.