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ABOUT MS-DOS

Microsoft DOS (Disk Operating System) is a command line user interface. MS-DOS 1.0 was released in 1981 for IBM computers and the latest version of MS-DOS is MS-DOS 6.22, which was released in 1994. While MS-DOS is not commonly used by itself today, it still can be accessed from every version of Microsoft Windows by clicking Start / Run and typing "command" or by typing "CMD" in Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

See the complete MS-DOS history by visiting our DOS section of our history section.

Additional information on other computer Operating Systems can also be found on our Operating Systems page.

 

 

 

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   MS-DOS COMMANDS

  * See our our complete overview page for a brief description on each of the below commands.
A ANSI.SYS | APPEND | ARP | ASSIGN | ASSOC | AT | ATMADM | ATTRIB
B BATCH | BOOTCFG | BREAK
C CACLS | CALL | CD | CHCP | CHDIR | CHKDSK | CHKNTFS | CHOICE | CLS | CMD | COLOR | COMMAND | COMP | COMPACT | CONTROL | CONVERT | COPY | CTTY
D DATE | DEBUG | DEFRAG | DEL | DELETE | DELTREE | DIR | DISABLE | DISKCOMP | DISKCOPY | DISKPART | DOSKEY | DOSSHELL | DRIVPARM
E ECHO | EDIT | EDLIN | EMM386 | ENABLE | ENDLOCAL | ERASE | EXIT | EXPAND | EXTRACT
F

FASTHELP | FC | FDISK | FIND | FINDSTR | FIXBOOT | FIXMBR | FOR | FORMAT | FTP | FTYPE

G GOTO | GRAFTABL
H HELP
I IF | IFSHLP.SYS | IPCONFIG
J NONE
K KEYB
L LABEL | LH | LISTSVC | LOADFIX | LOADHIGH | LOCK | LOGON
M MAP | MD | MEM | MKDIR | MODE | MORE | MOVE | MSAV | MSD | MSCDEX
N NBTSTAT | NET | NETSH | NETSTAT | NLSFUNC | NSLOOKUP
O NONE
P PATH | PATHPING | PAUSE | PING | POPD | POWER | PRINT | PROMPT | PUSHD
Q QBASIC
R RD | REN | RENAME | RMDIR | ROUTE | RUNAS
S SCANDISK | SCANREG | SET | SETLOCAL | SETVER | SFC | SHARE | SHIFT | SHUTDOWN | SMARTDRV | SORT | START | SUBST | SWITCHES | SYS | SYSTEMROOT
T TELNET | TIME | TITLE | TRACERT | TREE | TYPE
U UNDELETE | UNFORMAT | UNLOCK
V VER | VERIFY | VOL
W NONE
X XCOPY
Y NONE
Z NONE