Group Members o Nishant Vaity o Sushilkumar Shinde o Kishor Kambale
Introduction
MSDOS is Operating System well known as Micro icroS Soft Disk O perating System.
This
Operating System was t he main Operating System for Intel 8086 PC¶s in year 1980s.
Mostly IBM PC¶s or compatible PC¶s were able to use this operating system
MSDOS is also known as QDOS (Q (Quick and Dirty O perating System)
Introduction It
is single user Operating System
The
command line interpreter of N T- based versions of Windows, cmd.exe , maintains most of t he same commands and some compatibility with DOS batch files.
Command-Line Interface
DOS Operating System doesn¶t have GUI (Graphical User Interface) , it works on C LI (Command Line Interface).
No
mouse clicks are requires , every operation is done by using commands.
Some commands runs / executes directly but some commands requires to have parameters with it. Example : C:/>set This
command executes directly on DOS console
C:/>copy file1.txt file2.txt This
command requires two parameters with it , like file1.txt and file2.txt
File
Management
File
Management includes all kinds of file and directory related operations
Creating
Files or Directories
Naming Files
Copying
Moving Files or Directories
Deleting Files or Directories
Files or Directories
Tree View Of all files and directories
Setting file atributes
File
Creating
Management
Files
To create new file we w e can use edit command to open editor of console. When edited file is being saved on disk new file is created. C:/>edit
File
Creating
Management
Folders
To create new directory / folder we can use mkdir or md command followed follow ed by new folder name C:/>mkdir
new_folder
File
Management
Naming Files
To
rename existed file type ren command in console wit h old filename and new filename C:/>ren file1.txt file2.txt
File
Coping
Management
Files
To
copy existed file type copy command in console wit h filename which you wish to copy with new filename. C:/>copy file1.txt file2.txt
File
Management
Moving Files
To
move file from one location to anot her , use move command in dos console wit h source file and destination file path. C:/>mov file2.txt c:/new_folder
File
R emoving emoving
Management
Files
To
remove file saved on disk , use del command in dos console. C:/>del myfile.txt
File
R emoving emoving
Management
Directories
To create new directory / folder we can use mkdir or md command followed follow ed by new folder name C:/>rmdir
new_folder
File
Management
Tree View View Of all files f iles and directori directories es
DOS file structure is like a tree view consist co nsist of files and subdirectories C:/>tree
File
Attributes
Management
of files
Attributes
of files can be set by using attrib command
C:/>attrib
+s +h +r +a file2.txt
Batch Files
What are batch files ? Lists
of command line instructions that are batched together in one file.
