COMPLETE LIST OF ALL MS-DOS COMMANDS

A complete list of all internal and external DOS commands

THE PROBLEM:

• What is MS-DOS?
• An Operating System! Really?
• Why use MS-DOS? Im ok with XP, VISTA, SEVEN!
• What can I do of special with MS-DOS?

THE PRINCIPLE:

MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk operating system) is the first Microsoft Operating System (aka OS). It was also the fist PC OS to be widely spread. Unlike other Microsoft OS's (WINDOWS 98 upwards) that have a GUI (Graphical User Interface), MS-DOS is a CLI (Command line interface) based OS.

The first particularity of MS-DOS is its light weight (less than 10Mb) and fast booting. Up till today, it has proven itself to be very handy for maintenance tasksand low level tasks on file systems like simultanouesly changing the extension of many files, deleting all files by name or extension, performing low level formats etc all of which no other Microsoft OS can do without other installed 3rd party applications.

MS-DOS has 2 basic types of commands:

1) Internal Commands:

They are built-in commands that are shipped along with the operating system for example echo, cls, del, dir.

2) External Commands:

They are command often created while installing a new application. Some external commands can only be executed in the ‘Run’ dialog box (start > Run), but not on the command prompt (for example, the ‘firefox’ command can be executed only from the run line, that too if the firefox application is installed on that machine and it will not work on the command prompt). 

In addition to the 2 types listed above, we also distinguish the run line commands

3) Run Line Commands:

That are mostly commands that open other applications or start other programs.Other examples include diskpart, explorer etc

THE SOLUTION:

With MS-DOS, you can do very cool things like:

• Repairing damaged disk partitions and sectors
• Recovering files from damaged hard disks
• Writing deadly viruses
• Automating common tasks (shutting down, logging off etc)
• Repairing boot sectors of hard disk drives ...

In fact the only limit of what you can do with MS-DOS is your imagination. But to get started you must know the commands and what they do. You can get a list of basic DOS commands by opening the DOS command prompt (start > run > cmd or WINDOWS + R then type cmd in the box) and typing in the command help, but if you are willing to take out the best from DOS you need more than those basic commands. You can download the FULL COMPLETE list of ALL internal and external DOS commands HERE. For the run line commands you can download them HERE because i had already wrote a post on them.

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