Talk:List of DOS commands
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[edit] Extract
What about Extract? Setver? Sys? Scanreg? Debug? Edit?
[edit] Help
help
What do you want help with ? Theresa knott 11:50, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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- I think s/he's asking about the "HELP" command
[edit] Undelete
Does anyone remember the undelete command besides me? --Ardonik 00:18, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC)
- Remember? It saved my ass a couple times! ;-) sam 05:20, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
I don't know exactly which versions of DOS /autotest works under, but it is real and I have used it before. WhisperToMe 05:07, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Added, my description is based on MS-DOS 5.0. [EM]
[edit] EXIT
Isn't EXIT an DOS command? Yes. It EXITS the prompt when DOS is run in Windows. ? in pure DOS
- Done. Egumtow 21:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] COPY CON
Why is "copy con" listed as separate command? In that sense, we should probably list COMx and AUX versions as well. 10:23, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)
[edit] IPCONFIG
What about "ipconfig"? --69.156.126.101 00:25, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
- "ipconfig" never was a DOS command. "ipconfig" is a Microsoft Windows Console program. I think it should not be included in this list. peaNee 06:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] deltree refers to rm?
The sentence after the
deltree [/y] directory
example says:
- deltree's functions are also performed by rm when the option -r is used (or -rf for the /y switch).
...but there is no rm command listed. Do they mean rd/rmdir? --danwPlanet 17:39, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
No, rm is probably Unix. rd /s is the same as deltree.
[edit] Want discuss how to a some more content
I have a website that I want to merge into the Wikipedia. I have approx. 600 web pages, 26K local links within those pages, 5Mb of content.
I admit I really don't know where to start, and I don't want to break anything by trying to add things incorrectly.
Anyone want to suggest how to accomplish this? Has anyone done this recently?
Rick lively 16:28, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
- Wikipedia content must not be primary source material, Wikipedia content must be verifiable, and Wikipedia content must be GFDL licenced. Also note that Wikipedia is not a tutorial or a user guide. That sort of thing would belong in the Guide to Windows commands. What sort of content is it, and why have you chosen this talk page to discuss it? Uncle G 18:12, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Dos version for /? help
In DOS version 5 or later, to get help on a dos command, at the dos prompt, type /? after the command name.
I have dos version 4.1 and I can still use /? after the command name to get help.
==DOS commands for WIN98.. How come there is no TREE command in 98se? What would the equivalent be?
- It is true that Windows 98 don't include the Tree command. However if you can obtain a copy of the 'tree.com' file from a previous version of MS-DOS you can use it by adding it to the SETVER table using the 'Setver' command.
- Windows XP comes with tree, I dont know why tree wouldnt come with 98. Doodle77 01:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] recover
I used to have a disk with a bad sector, so for fun I put it in an older computer (older at the time) that had DOS 5, I think, and tried the "recover" function, and it rendered the disk's other data unusable. Did anyone ever have any good results when using "recover"? 69.120.224.167 08:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] EDIT
Does EDIT count as a DOS command. If you type it into DOS the MS-DOS text EDITOR comes up. Does ping count as well? (RCX 03:58, 11 February 2006 (UTC))
- Ping and ipconfig are not DOS commands because DOS doesnt come with them, Windows does. EDIT is also a DOS command, it replaced EDLIN, it is in my DOS manual. Doodle77 01:15, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Format
It says that the command "format" is seen as joke in the unix community, and then says that unix has an equivalent command, "mkfs". What's the difference? smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 18:37, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- I think that the joke refers to the /autotest parameter mentioned above the format example. But even though, in Unix systems you'll have to be logged in as a superuser to have access to the mkfs command. peaNee 13:54, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Copy
If multiple source files are indicated, the destination must be a directory, or an error will result. in MS-DOS 6.22 it appended the content of the multiple files to the what-can-be-interpreted-as-a-file ?
[edit] Is this page exclusively for DOS commands?
I think that we should not include commands of the Windows CMD.EXE Command Interpreter (like ping or ipconfig) in this article. In fact I would suggest a new List of Windows Commands article. What do you think? pinikas 12:02, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
