China DOS Union

DOS is installed. (ms-6.22)

cd enter a certain directory
dir ( /w horizontal display, easier on the eyes /a show hidden files /p pause at each full screen

copy a b (copy the thing at path a to path b)

copy a+b c (combine the thing at path a and the thing at path b and store them at path c, but this is generally only used for plain text files)

del command to delete files, cannot delete directories. (same as erase, del c:\*.*)
deltree a substitute for del, an external command file. Usually used together with the /y parameter (for example: deltree /y c:\*.*)

rd delete an empty directory (empty folder) rd c:\dos
md create an empty directory md c:\dos

ren rename a file ren a b (rename file a to b)

move an external command, used to move files or directories. However, it is generally used to rename directories. (move dos doss, rename directory dos to doss)

format an external command used to format disks. The commonly used parameters are /q quick format, only rebuilds the allocation table /u no backup information at all anymore, generally to prevent the unformat command (format c:/u/q)

type command to display file contents, generally for plain text files. For example: type c:\config.sys

. stands for the current directory

.. stands for the parent directory
For example, if I am on drive E and want to copy the contents in the parent directory of drive D to the current directory of drive D, I can do it like this
e:\>copy d:..\*.* d:.
The \ above is the path separator, * is a wildcard and represents a group of characters, similarly ? represents one character.

xcopy is an external command, an enhanced copy command. It can copy lower-level subdirectories together with everything else.
The commonly used parameters are /e to copy all lower-level subdirectories together /c to copy lower-level subdirectories together, but skip them when an empty directory is encountered.

Under DOS there are three kinds of file names (extensions) that can be executed directly.

.exe generally executable files
.com at most 64K, executes directly, does not perform relocation.
.bat batch files, execute directly, can be edited with text editors such as edit

Direct execution means it is the entry point for some application program or command or work.

Text editing under DOS uses the edit command. This is an external command. It is inseparable from the Qbasic that comes with MS-dos.

qbasic is also an external command. It can run the Qbasic language that comes with MS-dos.

With the above, you can get started. After that comes understanding and configuring DOS memory management and more DOS commands.

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You really should update your DOS version.

The OP's DOS version is a bit too old. I recommend using the MSDOS 7.10 version provided by the forum. If you don't want to use MSDOS, you can also use DRDOS 7.03 or PCDOS 7.10 or FREEDOS 8, etc.

Oh right.

Brother Wengier.

Could you make the DOS7.1 installation a bit more foolproof?

I tried messing with it today, but I don't really seem to know how to install it.

(Mainly I'm afraid it'll conflict with my current 98, because there are a lot of important things in 98)

How do I use DOS to enter a folder with a Chinese filename?

Yeah, I'd like to know too.

The following is a quote from 烽火00 on 2004-2-28 9:20:55:
How do I use DOS to enter a folder with a Chinese filename?

Just enter UCDOS or CCDOS and that will do

Can't you do it under pure DOS?

I'd like to learn too

I still don't understand DOS very well, please give me some guidance.

Really, thank you so much

Mine is a bit more detailed

I learned UCDOS in middle school. I've forgotten it all by now~~~ but I still remember a little
Hehe~

I want to really learn DOS well, please give me lots of guidance