Basic DOS Commands - DOEACC

DOS command Reference1 Some course material on the Teaching Network may still usethe command line operating system called DOS (DiskOperating System). This requires the user to type specificcommands at a may also need to use this system, for example, whenchanging your password, and you can enter DOS by choosing'MS-DOS Prompt' from the Public menu on the can be typed in response to the network DOSprompt:G:\> Commands may be typed in upper or lower case. Here, theyare specified in upper case to distinguish them from have a particular format. Some can be usedsimply by typing the command name only, as in:DIRwhich displays a listing of files in the current Commands can take extra information calledparameters to make them more specific, For example, theCOPY command can have a parameter specifying a file to becopied and a parameter specifying a file to which the copy is tobe made. So the command would look like this:COPY filea filebIn this case, filea would be the name of a file to copy fromand fileb would be the name of a file to copy can sometimes be omitted in which case a defaultaction will can also be qualified by the use of options.

Some Useful DOS Commands Make a copy of a file or merge files together. COPY original-file destination-file where original-file and destination-file are file names, separated by a space. The command can be used to merge several files into one file since the original-file parameter can be a list of filenames separated by the + symbol. For example:

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