Glossary – MS-DOS commands

For those which use MS-DOS for diferent operations, we decide to list some of the most used commands. We hope you will find this article very useful. So, here it is:

MKDIR or MD – create a folder on which drive you want

CHDIR or CD – change the folder in a drive

RMDIR sau RD – delete a folder

DIR – show you what do you have in a folder or in a drive

TYPE – show you the content of an ASCII file

COPY – help you to copy one or more files

XCOPY – help you to copy one or more folders

ERASE or DEL – help you to delete one or more folders

DATE – help you to change the date on your computer

PATH – define a way to find a folder or a file; for example: C:\>Exaple where Example is the folder you looking for and the C:\ it’s the drive; this could be C:\, D:\ ….. depends where it’s the folder you want to find.

SET – help you to setting the monitor, for example; like:  C:\>SET DISPLAY = EGA (set the monitor in EGA mode)

TIME – set the internal clock of the computer

VER – show you MS-DOS version

BACKUP – help you to make safe copy for your favourite files

CHKDSK – check the disk for errors

DISKCOPY – help you to copy diferent files from one disk to another; it’s available just for floppy disk.

FDISK – help you to setup the hard-disk

FORMAT – format the hard drive (hard-disk or floppy disk)

LABEL – creating, modify or deleting a hard drive etiquete

MEM – show you how the memory it’s used