About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: ATTRIB, At (Windows), Background Intelligent Transfer Service, Bootcfg, Cacls, Cd (command), CHKDSK, Choice (command), Cls (command), Command Prompt, Comp (command), Convert (command), Copy (command), DATE (command), Debug (command), Deltree, Del (command), Dir (command), Diskcomp (command), Diskcopy (command), Diskpart, DOSKey, Echo (command), Edlin, Exit (command), Fdisk, Findstr (computing), Find (command), Finger protocol, Format (command), Ftype (command), Help (command), Ipconfig, Kill (command), Label (command), List of MS-DOS commands, Microsoft File Compare, Microsoft ScanDisk, Mkdir, More (command), Move (command), MS-DOS Editor, Netsh, Netstat, Net use, Nslookup, NTBackup, PathPing, Ping (networking utility), Powercfg (command), Print (command), Pushd and popd, Recover (command), Regsvr32, Ren (command), Replace (command), Rmdir, Robocopy, Runas, Schtasks, Shadow Copy, Shutdown (computing), Start (command), SUBST, Sys.com, System File Checker, Tasklist, Tee (command), TIME (command), Title (command), Traceroute, Vol (command), W32tm, Wbadmin, Whoami, Windows Installer, Windows PowerShell, Windows System Assessment Tool, Windows Task Scheduler, XCOPY. Excerpt: In the personal computer operating systems MS-DOS and PC DOS, a number of standard system commands were provided for common tasks such as listing files on a disk or moving files. Some commands were built into the command interpreter, others existed as external commands on disk. Over the several generations of DOS, commands were added for the additional functions of the operating system. In the current Microsoft Windows operating system a text-mode command prompt window can still be used. The command interpreter for DOS runs when no application programs are running. When an application exits, if the transient portion of the command interpreter in...
