Exercise #1 - Using MS-DOS

At the command prompt, enter the DOS commands indicated below to perform the following:

To change to the DOS directory.

cd \DOS

To view a list of the files in the DOS directory.

dir

To view a list of the files in the current DOS directory - one screen at a time.

dir /p

To view a list of the files in the current DOS directory in wide format.

dir /w

To change back to the ROOT directory.

cd \

To format a diskette (Ensure that a NEW diskette / ERASEABLE diskette has been placed in Drive A:)

format a:

To confirm that you successfully formatted a diskette in Drive A:

dir a:

To make a system diskette (ie, Create a bootable disk by formatting the disk and placing system files on the disk - IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM).

format a: /s

To confirm that you successfully created a system diskette.

attrib a:\*.*

To make the floppy disk drive the current disk drive.

To create a label on a floppy disk.

label a:

To create a directory named FRUIT - existing off of the ROOT directory.

md \FRUIT

To create a directory named GRAPES - existing within the FRUIT directory.

md \FRUIT\GRAPES

To confirm the existence of the directory GRAPES.

dir \FRUIT

To change to the directory GRAPES.

cd \FRUIT\GRAPES

To switch back to the FRUIT directory.

cd ..

To delete the directory GRAPES.

rd GRAPES

To confirm you successfully deleted the directory GRAPES.

dir

To change back to the ROOT directory.

cd \

To view files on Drive C: when drive A: is current.

dir c:

To view the contents of the DOS directory on drive C: when drive A: is current.

cd \DOS

To copy a single file - AUTOEXEC.BAT from drive C: to the ROOT directory on drive A: .

copy c:\autoexec.bat a:\

To copy the single file - CONFIG.SYS from drive C: to the ROOT directory on drive A: .

copy c:\config.sys

To copy the CONFIG.SYS file on drive A: to the another file on drive A: havng the name workfile.tmp .

xcopy config.sys workfile.tmp

To confirm the existence of the files on drive A:.

dir

To move all files with the filename WORKFILE to the sub-directory FRUIT .

move workfile.* \fruit

To attempt to remove the directory FRUIT.

rd FRUIT

To confirm the existence of the files on drive A: in the directory FRUIT.

DIR FRUIT

To delete the directory FRUIT along with ALL files and sub-directories contained in this directory.

DELTREE FRUIT

To make a directory WORK on the ROOT of drive A:.

MD WORK

To copy multiple files from drive C: to the directory WORK directory on driveA:.

xcopy c:\*.* a:\work

To make the WORK directory on drive A: the current directory.

cd WORK

To confirm that the WORK directory is the current directory.

DIR FRUIT /p

To rename the files in the WORK directory to have the existing filename, but for ALL files to have the extension .TXT.

ren *.* *.TXT

To rename a single file - COMMAND.TXT to COMMAND.COM.

rename command.txt command.com

To rename multiple files starting with the letter C to start with the letter X and to have the extention .DKA.

ren C*.* X*.DKA

To confirm the existence of multiple files starting with the letter X, and having an extension starting with the letter C.

dir x*.c??

dir x*.c*

To delete multiple files having the extension .TXT

del *.txt

To confirm the existence of the files in the current directory.

dir

To hide ALL file having an extension starting with the letter C.

attrib +h *.c*

To delete ALL files existing in the directory WORK.

del *.*

To list the files in the directory WORK.

dir

To return to the ROOT directory of the current drive.

cd \

To attempt to remove the directory WORK.

rd work

To return to the WORK directory.

cd work

To list the file in the WORK directory.

dir

To list ALL files in the directory WORK - including hidden files.

attrib *.*

To make the hidden file VISIBLE in the directory WORK.

attrib -h *.*

To list the file in the WORK directory.

dir

To make ALL files READ-ONLY.

attrib +r *.*

To confirm the all files are READ-ONLY.

attrib *.*

To attempt to delete all files in the current directory.

del *.*

To list the file in the WORK directory.

dir

To remove the READ-ONLY attribute on all files.

attrib -r *.*

To confirm the all files are READ-ONLY.

attrib *.*

To delete all files in the current directory.

del *.*

To confirm all files have been deleted from the WORK directory.

attrib *.*