DOS Commandstitle> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://premsobel.info/css/top.css" /> </head> <body> <h1 align=center>DOS Commands</h1> <p class=update>2008 Oct 18</p> <hr class=hrb> <table align=center class=tbl2> <tr bgcolor=#EEFFFF> <td align=center><font size=+2> <a href="dos_commands_all.html">All<br>Alphabetic</a></font> </td> <td> <table align=center class=tbl2> <tr class=tr2h> <th>Command Category</th> <th>Abrev</th> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href="dos_batch_files.html">Batch File Commands</a></td> <td>BAT_CMD</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href="../config_sys.html">CONFIG.SYS Commands</a></td> <td>CFG_CMD</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href="../config_sys.html#CFG_DRV">CONFIG.SYS Device Drivers</a></td> <td>CFG_DRV</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=#DIR_CMD>Directory Commands</a></td> <td>DIR_CMD</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=#DSK_CMD>Disk Commands</a></td> <td>DSK_CMD</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=#FIL_CMD>File Commands</a></td> <td>FIL_CMD</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=#FLS_APL>Full Screen DOS Applications</a></td> <td>FLS_APL</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=#HLP_CMD>Help Commands</a></td> <td>HLP_CMD</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=#INTRNTL>International Commands and Device Drivers</a></td> <td>INTRNTL</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=#MSY_CMD>Memory and System Performance Commands</a></td> <td>MSY_CMD</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=#MSC_CMD>Miscellaneous Commands</a></td> <td>MSC_CMD</td> </tr> </table> </td> <td> <b>External Links</b> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.easydos.com/dosindex.html">Dos Commands</a> <li><a href="http://secretguide2pcs.tripod.com/MS-DOS.htm"> secretguide2pcs.tripod.com/MS-DOS.htm</a> </ul> <b>Internal Links</b> <ul> <li><a href="DosTheEasyWay.html">Dos Commands EasyWay</a> <li><a href="dos_secretguide.htm">SecretGuide</a> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <hr class=hrb> <table align=center class=tbl2> <caption align=center><a href name="DIR_CMD"></a> <b>Directory Commands</b></caption> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=cd.html><b>CD</b> or <b>CHDIR</b></a></td> <td>Change current directory</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=deltree.html><b>DELTREE</b></a></td> <td>Deletes a directory and recursively all subdirectories</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=md.html><b>MD</b> or <b>MKDIR</b></a></td> <td>Create a new subdirectory</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=rd.html><b>RD</b> or <b>RMDIR</b></a></td> <td>Deletes an empty subdirectory</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=tree.html><b>TREE</b></a></td> <td>Displays the subdirectory structure</td> </tr> </table> <hr class=hrb> <table align=center class=tbl2> <caption align=center><a href name="DSK_CMD"></a> <b>Disk Commands</b></caption> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=chkdsk.html><b>CHKDSK</b></a></td> <td>Checks a disk for errors, and provides information on the amount of space in use</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=defrag.html><b>DEFRAG</b></a></td> <td>Defragments the files on a disk, speeding up disk operation</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=diskcomp.html><b>DISKCOMP</b></a></td> <td>Compares two floppy disks to see whether they are identical</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=diskcopy.html><b>DISKCOPY</b></a></td> <td>Makes a copy of a floppy disk</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=fdisk.html><b>FDISK</b></a></td> <td>Hard disk partitioning program; prepares a new hard drive to accept DOS or partitions a single drive into multiple logical drives</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=format.html><b>FORMAT</b></a></td> <td>Formats a hard or floppy drive for DOS</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=label.html><b>LABEL</b></a></td> <td>Creates, edits, or deletes a volume lable on a disk</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=scandisk.html><b>SCANDISK</b></a></td> <td>Analyzes disks and repeairs errors on normal and DoubleSpace compressed disks (DOS 6.2 or later)</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=subst.html><b>SUBST</b></a></td> <td>Creates a disk drive letter alias that refers to a subdirectory or another drive</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=sys.html><b>SYS</b></a></td> <td>Installs the DOS system files on another disk</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=unformat.html><b>UNFORMAT</b></a></td> <td>Returns a disk to the state it was before FORMAT was run</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=verify.html><b>VERIFY</b></a></td> <td>Controls whether DOS will read everything written to disk to ensure that no errors occurred</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=vol.html><b>VOL</b></a></td> <td>Displays the volume label of a disk</td> </tr> </table> <hr class=hrb> <table align=center class=tbl2> <caption align=center><a href name="FIL_CMD"></a> <b>File Commands</b></caption> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=attrib.html><b>ATTRIB</b></a></td> <td>Views or changes file attributes</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=copy.html><b>COPY</b></a></td> <td>Copies or concatenates a file or group of files</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=del.html><b>DEL</b> or <b>ERASE</b></a></td> <td>Deletes a file or group of files</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=dir.html><b>DIR</b></a></td> <td>Displays a listing of the files in a (sub)directory</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=#EXPAND><b>EXPAND</b></a></td> <td>Expands (uncompresses) files on the DOS 6 distribution disks</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=fc.html><b>FC</b></a></td> <td>Compares two files for differences</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=find.html><b>FIND</b></a></td> <td>Finds matching text in a file</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=move.html><b>MOVE</b></a></td> <td>Moves a file from one subdirectory to another or renames a subdirectory</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=ren.html><b>REN</b> or <b>RENAME</b></a></td> <td>Renames a file or group of files</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=#SHARE><b>SHARE</b></a></td> <td>Provides fil sharing and locking capabilities for DOS</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=type.html><b>TYPE</b></a></td> <td>Displays the contents of a file on the display</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=undelete.html><b>UNDELETE</b></a></td> <td>Undeletes a file or group of files</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=xcopy.html><b>XCOPY</b></a></td> <td>Copies files and subdirectories</td> </tr> </table> <hr class=hrb> <table align=center class=tbl2> <caption align=center><a href name="FLS_APL"></a> <b>Full Screen DOS Applications</b></caption> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=dblspace.html><b>DBLSPACE</b></a></td> <td>Program that compress data on a disk, proving up to effectively twice the amount of space</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=debug.html><b>DEBUG</b></a></td> <td>Programmer's debugger</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=defrag.html><b>DEFRAG</b></a></td> <td>Defragments the files on a disk, speeding up disk operation</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=dosshell.html><b>DOSSHELL</b></a></td> <td>Graphical shell program for DOS</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=edit.html><b>EDIT</b></a></td> <td>A full screen ASCII text editor</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=fdisk.html><b>FDISK</b></a></td> <td>Hard disk partitioning program; prepares a new hard drive to accept DOS or partitions a single drive into multiple logical drives</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=help.html><b>HELP</b></a></td> <td>An online help system giving descriptions, parameters and examples of every DOS command</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=msav.html><b>MSAV</b></a></td> <td>Microsoft Anti-Virus program</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=msbackup.html><b>MSBACKUP</b></a></td> <td>Microsoft backup program (hard drive to floppies)</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=msd/html><b>MSD</b></a></td> <td>Microsoft System Diagnostics program (system configuration info)</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=qbasic.html><b>QBASIC</b></a></td> <td>Microsoft System QuickBasic development enviornment, enabling you to write and run QBasic programs</td> </tr> </table> <hr class=hrb> <table align=center class=tbl2> <caption align=center><a href name="HLP_CMD"></a> <b>Help Commands</b></caption> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=fasthelp.html><b>FASTHELP</b></a></td> <td>Displays a short list of what each DOS command is for and its syntax</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=help.html><b>HELP</b></td> <td>A full screen online help system fo DOS commands</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><b>/?</b></td> <td>(Not a command), but a switch on the command line to get help from many DOS commands</td> </tr> </table> <hr class=hrb> <table align=center class=tbl2> <caption align=center><a href name="INTRNTL"></a> <b>International Commands</b></caption> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=chcp.html><b>CHCP</b></a></td> <td>Changes the active country code page</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=country_.html><b>COUNTRY=</b></a></td> <td>Sets country information, in CONFIG.SYS</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=display_sys.html><b>DISPLAY.SYS</b></a></td> <td>Device driver for the display with international code page support, in CONFIG.SYS</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=keyb.html><b>KEYB</b></a></td> <td>Sets the active keyboard layout</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=mode.html><b>MODE</b></a></td> <td>Configures standard DOS devices, including changing the active code page for the keyboard, display, and printer</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=nlsfunc.html><b>NLSFUNC</b></a></td> <td>Contains code page switching support required by CHCP and MODE</td> </tr> </table> <hr class=hrb> <table align=center class=tbl2> <caption align=center><a href name="MSY_CMD"></a> <b>Memory and System Performance Commands</b></caption> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=buffers_.html><b>BUFFERS=</b></a></td> <td>Sets the number of disk buffers used by DOS</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=defrag.html><b>DEFRAG</b></a></td> <td>Defragments the files on a disk, speeding up disk operation</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=devicehigh_.html><b>DEVICEHIGH=</b></a></td> <td>Loads an installable device driver into high (UMB) memory</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=device_.html><b>DEVICE=</b></a></td> <td>Loads an installable device driver into high (UMB) memory</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=dos.html><b>DOS=</b></a></td> <td>Sets whether DOS loads into conventional memory or into the high memory area (HMA)</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=emm386_sys><b>EMM386.SYS</b></a></td> <td>Expanded (EMS0 Memory Manager with upper memory block (UMB) support</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=himem_sys.html><b>HIMEM.SYS</b></a></td> <td>Extended (XMS) Memory Manager</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=lh.html><b>LH</b> or <b>LOADHIGH</b></a></td> <td>Loads a TSR program into high (UMB) memory</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=loadfix.html><b>LOADFIX</b></a></td> <td>Forces a program to load into the second 64KB of memory</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=mem.html><b>MEM</b></a></td> <td>Display how memory in the computer is being used</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=memmaker.html><b>MEMMAKER</b></a></td> <td>Utility to optimize memory usage</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=smartdrv.html><b>SMARTDRV</b></a></td> <td>Disk cache program that can spped up disk access</td> </tr> </table> <hr class=hrb> <table align=center class=tbl2> <caption align=center><a href name="MSC_CMD"></a> <b>Miscellaneous Commands</b></caption> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=append.html><b>APPEND</b></a></td> <td>Establishes a DOS search path for data files</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=break.html><b>BREAK</b></a></td> <td>Turns ectended Ctrl+Break checking on or off</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=cls.html><b>CLS</b></a></td> <td>Clear the screen</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=ctty.html><b>CTTY</b></a></td> <td>Changes the device used for standard input and output</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=date.html><b>DATE</b></a></td> <td>Views or changes the system date</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=doskey.html><b>DOSKEY</b></a></td> <td>Provides enhanced command line editing and macro capability</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=exit.html><b>EXIT</b></a></td> <td>Exits or terminates a temporary copy of COMMAND.COM</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=graphics.html><b>GRAPHICS</b></a></td> <td>Provides support for graphics mode <i>Print Screen</i> function</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=more.html><b>MORE</b></a></td> <td>Pauses display output after a screen full</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=path.html><b>PATH</b></a></td> <td>Establishes search paths for DOS executable files</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=print.html><b>PRINT</b></a></td> <td>Controls the print spooler for ASCII text files</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=prompt.html><b>PROMPT</b></a></td> <td>Customizes the command line prompt used by DOS</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=restore.html><b>RESTORE</b></a></td> <td>Restores files backed up with the DOS 5 version of BACKUP</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=set.html><b>SET</b></a></td> <td>Sets, clears, or displays envionment variables</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=sort.html><b>SORT</b></a></td> <td>Sorts ASCII text lines alphabetically</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=time.html><b>TIME</b></a></td> <td>Views or changes the system time</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=ver.html><b>VER</b></a></td> <td>Displays the version of DOS running</td> </tr> <tr class=tr2e> <td><a href=vsafe.html><b>VSAFE</b></a></td> <td>Watches for viruses</td> </tr> </table> <hr class=hrb> <p class=copyr>2005-2008</p>  <script type='text/javascript' src='https://count.carrierzone.com/app/count_server/count.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> </script>  </body> </html>