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mem
the command is not working in w7 x64.
Olof nord (
talk) 18:33, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
The Win64 systems (xp, vista, 7), do not have a DOS subsystem, and therefore do not have the few DOS utilities as in the 32-bit versions: command, debug, edit, edlin, and mem. mem only ever reported on the virtual DOS machine, and not the global windows environment in any case. -- Wendy.krieger ( talk) 07:34, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
cd f:
displays the current working directory on F:
.
to actually change partition you need to also write the /d parameter.
Olof nord (
talk) 18:28, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
No version of DOS command.com supports cd /d. The method of changing the current drive is eg f: . Something like cd f:\ would change the current drive on f: to the root directory, but would not change the current drive to f:. -- Wendy.krieger ( talk) 06:27, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
What about Extract? Setver? Sys? Scanreg? Debug? Edit?
Extract, scanreg, is specific to MS-DOS 7. "Edit" is a utility bundled with DOS, different DOS versions have functionally different editors. (cf edlin). Scanreg is a DOS part of Windows 9x. In PC-DOS 7, Extract and Edit are functioanlly replaced by unpack2 (unpack distribution files), and E (text editor). DR-DOS uses even different files.
Setver, sys and debug are indeed parts of DOS. -- Wendy.krieger ( talk) 06:24, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
In DOS version 5 or later, to get help on a dos command, at the dos prompt, type /? after the command name.
I have dos version 4.1 and I can still use /? after the command name to get help.
If multiple source files are indicated, the destination must be a directory, or an error will result. in MS-DOS 6.22 it appended the content of the multiple files to the what-can-be-interpreted-as-a-file ?
Shows the version of MS-DOS you are using.
It have became false since a while: recently, the Windows version is shown, not the DOS one. Ask VER itself (here, it respond in french):
C:\>ver /? Affiche le numéro de version de Windows XP.
According to some websites (including the previously quoted Computer Hope), this is since Windows 95. Lacrymocéphale 13:22, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
ver
shows the version of MS-DOS you are using. As you know, there is also a Windows command ver
. This command shows the version of Windows you are using. We don't have a "List of Windows commands" yet, but I was actually plannig to create it someday. There are certain commands that are available only on DOS and there are certain commands that are available only on Windows. However, many of them exist on both platforms and are almost the same.Any thoughts on adding a ctty article? Surv1v4l1st ( Talk| Contribs) 23:31, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
What are we trying to achieve here? It's a pretty random collection of information and doesn't distinguish between built-in commands and transient commands that may or may not come with any particular version of MS DOS (or PC DOS or whatever rebranded name came with the clone.). -- Wtshymanski ( talk) 17:49, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
71.112.17.101 ( talk) 06:37, 7 February 2010 (UTC)How about mentioning spaces between switches effect of 0,1,2+ blanks
This article is a mess and needs a complete overhaul. Problems:
What should be listed:
What should not be listed:
Asmpgmr ( talk) 00:16, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
The article has been overhauled:
Asmpgmr ( talk) 20:51, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Why are references to CP/M needed in a reference list of DOS commands ? This really seems like unnecessary information. CP/M commands should be put in a List of CP/M commands article. I'm mixed on the 86-DOS stuff even though DOS is of course based upon it. This is a List of MS-DOS commands so it should start with PC DOS 1.0 which was the first release of DOS and go up to MS-DOS 6.22 and PC DOS 2000 (a.k.a. PC DOS 7 revision 1). Asmpgmr ( talk) 16:29, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
MEMMAKER redirects here but there is no content on this page regarding MEMMAKER. It looks like its entry was removed because it wasn't considered a core DOS command or something. The redirection should probably be removed or changed to something more relevant. 184.88.231.118 ( talk) 06:08, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Prior content in this article copied content straight from various MS-DOS manuals, which Microsoft owns the copyright to. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and according to fair use may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 10:03, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
As discussed in a withdrawn AfD nomination, this article might benefit from further compaction into something similar to the List of Unix commands. However, Mark viking did a great job by removing howto-like content from the article, what makes me no longer sure whether a further compaction would be appropriate from the readability standpoint. Thoughts? — Dsimic ( talk | contribs) 05:28, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Merge of that article here is not appropriate because most of its content is not relevant to DOS. It was recently redirected but I have had to undo that as nearly all the content was lost in the process. 85.255.233.100 ( talk) 18:03, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
The article states that TYPE can concatenate files as TYPE file1 file2 file3
- no problem here. The article then claims that it does not work for long files (though unhelpfully does not quantify how long a file has to be for the command to fail). I have had a look at Microsoft's documentation for DOS 3.3; DOS 5.0; DOS 6.0 & DOS 6.2. None of the documentation mentions a file size limit. A supporting reference is therefore required if this claim is to remain in the article.
DieSwartzPunkt (
talk) 11:55, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
Is there a reason the command mountvol is not included? ZFT ( talk) 16:47, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
TIMEOUT should perhaps be added 94.30.84.71 ( talk) 94.30.84.71 ( talk) 12:47, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
![]() | DATE (command) was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 03 October 2014 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into List of DOS commands. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here. |
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mem
the command is not working in w7 x64.
Olof nord (
talk) 18:33, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
The Win64 systems (xp, vista, 7), do not have a DOS subsystem, and therefore do not have the few DOS utilities as in the 32-bit versions: command, debug, edit, edlin, and mem. mem only ever reported on the virtual DOS machine, and not the global windows environment in any case. -- Wendy.krieger ( talk) 07:34, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
cd f:
displays the current working directory on F:
.
to actually change partition you need to also write the /d parameter.
Olof nord (
talk) 18:28, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
No version of DOS command.com supports cd /d. The method of changing the current drive is eg f: . Something like cd f:\ would change the current drive on f: to the root directory, but would not change the current drive to f:. -- Wendy.krieger ( talk) 06:27, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
What about Extract? Setver? Sys? Scanreg? Debug? Edit?
Extract, scanreg, is specific to MS-DOS 7. "Edit" is a utility bundled with DOS, different DOS versions have functionally different editors. (cf edlin). Scanreg is a DOS part of Windows 9x. In PC-DOS 7, Extract and Edit are functioanlly replaced by unpack2 (unpack distribution files), and E (text editor). DR-DOS uses even different files.
Setver, sys and debug are indeed parts of DOS. -- Wendy.krieger ( talk) 06:24, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
In DOS version 5 or later, to get help on a dos command, at the dos prompt, type /? after the command name.
I have dos version 4.1 and I can still use /? after the command name to get help.
If multiple source files are indicated, the destination must be a directory, or an error will result. in MS-DOS 6.22 it appended the content of the multiple files to the what-can-be-interpreted-as-a-file ?
Shows the version of MS-DOS you are using.
It have became false since a while: recently, the Windows version is shown, not the DOS one. Ask VER itself (here, it respond in french):
C:\>ver /? Affiche le numéro de version de Windows XP.
According to some websites (including the previously quoted Computer Hope), this is since Windows 95. Lacrymocéphale 13:22, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
ver
shows the version of MS-DOS you are using. As you know, there is also a Windows command ver
. This command shows the version of Windows you are using. We don't have a "List of Windows commands" yet, but I was actually plannig to create it someday. There are certain commands that are available only on DOS and there are certain commands that are available only on Windows. However, many of them exist on both platforms and are almost the same.Any thoughts on adding a ctty article? Surv1v4l1st ( Talk| Contribs) 23:31, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
What are we trying to achieve here? It's a pretty random collection of information and doesn't distinguish between built-in commands and transient commands that may or may not come with any particular version of MS DOS (or PC DOS or whatever rebranded name came with the clone.). -- Wtshymanski ( talk) 17:49, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
71.112.17.101 ( talk) 06:37, 7 February 2010 (UTC)How about mentioning spaces between switches effect of 0,1,2+ blanks
This article is a mess and needs a complete overhaul. Problems:
What should be listed:
What should not be listed:
Asmpgmr ( talk) 00:16, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
The article has been overhauled:
Asmpgmr ( talk) 20:51, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Why are references to CP/M needed in a reference list of DOS commands ? This really seems like unnecessary information. CP/M commands should be put in a List of CP/M commands article. I'm mixed on the 86-DOS stuff even though DOS is of course based upon it. This is a List of MS-DOS commands so it should start with PC DOS 1.0 which was the first release of DOS and go up to MS-DOS 6.22 and PC DOS 2000 (a.k.a. PC DOS 7 revision 1). Asmpgmr ( talk) 16:29, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
MEMMAKER redirects here but there is no content on this page regarding MEMMAKER. It looks like its entry was removed because it wasn't considered a core DOS command or something. The redirection should probably be removed or changed to something more relevant. 184.88.231.118 ( talk) 06:08, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Prior content in this article copied content straight from various MS-DOS manuals, which Microsoft owns the copyright to. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and according to fair use may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 10:03, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
As discussed in a withdrawn AfD nomination, this article might benefit from further compaction into something similar to the List of Unix commands. However, Mark viking did a great job by removing howto-like content from the article, what makes me no longer sure whether a further compaction would be appropriate from the readability standpoint. Thoughts? — Dsimic ( talk | contribs) 05:28, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Merge of that article here is not appropriate because most of its content is not relevant to DOS. It was recently redirected but I have had to undo that as nearly all the content was lost in the process. 85.255.233.100 ( talk) 18:03, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
The article states that TYPE can concatenate files as TYPE file1 file2 file3
- no problem here. The article then claims that it does not work for long files (though unhelpfully does not quantify how long a file has to be for the command to fail). I have had a look at Microsoft's documentation for DOS 3.3; DOS 5.0; DOS 6.0 & DOS 6.2. None of the documentation mentions a file size limit. A supporting reference is therefore required if this claim is to remain in the article.
DieSwartzPunkt (
talk) 11:55, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
Is there a reason the command mountvol is not included? ZFT ( talk) 16:47, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
TIMEOUT should perhaps be added 94.30.84.71 ( talk) 94.30.84.71 ( talk) 12:47, 11 November 2022 (UTC)