Friday, February 26, 2010

DOS

DOS is a disk operating system

Booting is to run DOS

DOS is text based.

To communicate with DOS, the screen has a prompt where you enter a text.

Case insensitive means that..... An example would be...
means you can put any word you want and it dont have to be uppercase or lower case

4 useful things to learn about DOS.
SET PATH=________________________________________________
? in a file name means takes you what you put your file name as
* in a file name means a wildcard that takes you anywhere that has your file name
. in a directory path stands for goes to that certain file

7 very useful DOS commands. Explain each.
A:floppy disk
C:change current directory- hard disk
DIR:directory
MD:make new directory
CD:change directory
COPY:copy file
DEL:delete

DOS organizes disks by file, directory and disk drive structure

Three requirements that must be met for a file to be named include 1-8 letter name, period, 3 letter extension

In DOS directories named by root, directory, subdirectories

Wednesday, January 27, 2010