Commands
DIR - Display the contents of a folder. Will include file names and any sub folders that are in the specified directory. On its own, DIR will display the contents of the current directory. Don't forget, adding the "/S" switch to DIR will cause it to search sub directories.
CD Change Directory. Used to move around your system. You can reach the root directory quickly by issuing CD \. Full path names will always start with the back slash character "\" as they are specified from the root directory. Relative path names never start with the back slash and are relative to your current directory.
COPY - Copy source file to target file. Providing the source file is in another folder, the target file can be omitted. It will then be copied to the current folder with the same name as the source file. You can rename files using the COPY command (although be careful that you don't overwrite a file).
DEL - Delete file(s). You can use the wildcards "*" and "?" to delete more than one file at a time. Therefore, DEL MYFILES.* will delete all files that start MYFILES and have any ending. The "?" is used to denote a single character, so DEL MYFILE??.* would remove FILE01, FILE02, ... but wouldn't delete FILE100 as it has 3 characters after MYFILE.
TYPE - Display the contents of an ASCII (text) file. Don't try this command with a .EXE file - it will mess your display up!
EDIT - Edit (change) the contents of an ASCII text file. EDIT is the DOS version of Windows Notepad.
MKDIR - Make a new directory. Create a sub folder in the current directory.
RMDIR - Remove a directory. Note that the directory must be empty - that is, must NOT have any files or sub folders contained within.
FORMAT - Format (prepare) a disk ready for data storage. If the disk contains data (either a floppy disk or a hard disk), the existing data will be lost. Use this command with extreme care! You can transfer the system to a floppy disk (to make it bootable) by adding the /SYS option.
