MS-DOS Complete List of Commands

MS-DOS Commands List

HOWDY Guys! For sure some of you would be tackling in school about MS-DOS and if so, you'll be searching and stressing out some commands. Here is a complete list of ALL MS-DOS Commands and I hope I made your research less time-consuming ^__^ Uuhh.. oh yeah.. publishing this post encourage me because for sure, some of my Hardware Servicing classmates aren't able to create their homework so guys! Here are the answers! Ahahhah!. COMMENTS ARE HIGHLY APPRECIATED! xD

FOR ICIANS TESDA Classmates

Probably by this time, you want to copy all of these answers ina jiffy but Sir Raymund does not require the complete list so just copy some below like about 20 commands or so. Ehehhe. GOOD LUCK :P

ANSI.SYS — Defines functions that change display graphics, control cursor movement, and reassign keys.
APPEND — Causes MS-DOS to look in other directories when editing a file or running a command.
ARP — Displays, adds, and removes arp information from network devices
ASSIGN — Assign a drive letter to an alternate letter
ASSOC — View the file associations
AT — Schedule a time to execute commands or programs.
ATMADM — Lists connections and addresses seen by Windows ATM call manager.
ATTRIB — Display and change file attributes.
BATCH — NRecovery console command that executes a series of commands in a file.
BOOTCFG — Recovery console command that allows a user to view, modify, and rebuild the boot.ini
BREAK — Enable / disable CTRL + C feature.
CACLS — View and modify file ACL’s.
CALL — Calls a batch file from another batch file.
CD — Changes directories.
CHCP — Supplement the International keyboard and character set information.
CHDIR — Changes directories.
CHKDSK — Check the hard disk drive running FAT for errors.
CHKNTFS — Check the hard disk drive running NTFS for errors.
CHOICE — Specify a listing of multiple options within a batch file.
CLS — Clears the screen.
CMD — Opens the command interpreter.
COLOR — Easily change the foreground and background color of the MS-DOS window.
COMP — Compares files.
COMPACT — Compresses and uncompress files.
CONTROL — Open control panel icons from the MS-DOS prompt.
CONVERT Convert FAT to NTFS.
COPY — Copy one or more files to an alternate location.
CTTY — Change the computers input/output devices.
DATE — View or change the systems date.
DEBUG — Debug utility to create assembly programs to modify hardware settings.
DEFRAG — Re-arrange the hard disk drive to help with loading programs.
DEL — Deletes one or more files.
DELETE — Recovery console command that deletes a file.
DELTREE — Deletes one or more files and/or directories.
DIR — List the contents of one or more directory.
DISABLE — Recovery console command that disables Windows system services or drivers.
DISKCOMP — Compare a disk with another disk.
DISKCOPY — Copy the contents of one disk and place them on another disk.
DOSKEY — Command to view and execute commands that have been run in the past.
DOSSHELL — A GUI to help with early MS-DOS users.
DRIVPARM — Enables overwrite of original device drivers.
ECHO — Displays messages and enables and disables echo.
EDIT — View and edit files.
EDLIN — View and edit files.
EMM386 — Load extended Memory Manager.
ENABLE — Recovery console command to enable a disable service or driver.
ENDLOCAL — Stops the localization of the environment changes
enabled by the setlocal command.
ERASE — Erase files from computer.
EXPAND — Expand a Microsoft Windows file back to it’s original format.
EXIT — Exit from the command interpreter.
EXTRACT — Extract files from the Microsoft Windows cabinets.
FASTHELP — Displays a listing of MS-DOS commands and information about them
FC — Compare files.
FDISK — Utility used to create partitions on the hard disk drive.
FIND — Search for text within a file.
FINDSTR — Searches for a string of text within a file.
FIXBOOT — Writes a new boot sector.
FIXMBR — Writes a new boot record to a disk drive.
FOR — Boolean used in batch files.
FORMAT — Command to erase and prepare a disk drive.
FTP — Command to connect and operate on a FTP server.
FTYPE — Displays or modifies file types used in file extension associations.
GOTO — Moves a batch file to a specific label or location.
GRAFTABL — Show extended characters in graphics mode.
HELP — Display a listing of commands and brief explanation.
IF — Allows for batch files to perform conditional processing.
IFSHLP.SYS — 32-bit file manager.
IPCONFIG — Network command to view network adapter settings and assigned values.
KEYB — Change layout of keyboard.
LABEL — Change the label of a disk drive.
LH — Load a device driver in to high memory.
LISTSVC — Recovery console command that displays the services and drivers.
LOADFIX — Load a program above the first 64k.
LOADHIGH — Load a device driver in to high memory.
LOCK — Lock the hard disk drive.
LOGON — Recovery console command to list installations & enable administrator login.
MAP — Displays the device name of a drive.
MD — Command to create a new directory.
MEM — Display memory on system.
MKDIR — Command to create a new directory.
MODE — Modify the port or display settings.
MORE — Display one page at a time.
MOVE — Move one or more files from one directory to another DIRECTORY
MSAV — Early Microsoft Virus scanner.
MSD — Diagnostics utility.
MSCDEX — Utility used to load and provide access to the CD-ROM.
NBTSTAT — Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT
NET — Update, fix, or view the network or network settings
NETSH — Configure dynamic and static network information from MS-DOS.
NETSTAT — Display the TCP/IP network protocol statistics and information.
NLSFUNC — Load country specific information.
NSLOOKUP — Look up an IP address of a domain or host on a network.
PATH — View and modify the computers path location
PATHPING — View and locate locations of network latency
PAUSE — command used in batch files to stop the processing of a command.
PING — Test / send information to another network computer or network device
POPD — Changes to the directory or network path stored by the pushd command.
POWER — Conserve power with computer portables.
PRINT — Prints data to a printer port.
PROMPT — View and change the MS-DOS prompt.
PUSHD —Stores a directory/network path in memory so it can be returned to at any time
QBASIC — Open the QBasic.
RD — Removes an empty directory.
REN — Renames a file or directory.
RENAME — Renames a file or directory.
RMDIR — Removes an empty directory.
ROUTE — View and configure windows network route tables.
RUNAS — Enables a user to execute a program on another computer.
SCANDISK — Run the scandisk utility.
SCANREG — Scan registry and recover registry from errors.
SET — Change one variable or string to another.
SETLOCAL — Enables local environments to be changed without affecting anything else.
SHARE — Installs support for file sharing and locking capabilities.
SETVER — Change MS-DOS version to trick older MS-DOS programs.
SHIFT — Changes the position of replaceable parameters in a batch program.
SHUTDOWN — Shutdown the computer from the MS-DOS prompt.
SMARTDRV — Create a disk cache in conventional memory or extended memory.
SORT — Sorts the input and displays the output to the screen.
START — Start a separate window in Windows from the MS-DOS prompt.
SUBST — Substitute a folder on your computer for another drive letter.
SWITCHES — Remove add functions from MS-DOS.
SYS — Transfer system files to disk drive.
TELNET — Telnet to another computer / device from the prompt.
TIME — View or modify the system time.
TITLE — Change the title of their MS-DOS window.
TRACERT — Visually view a network packets route across a network.
TREE — View a visual tree of the hard disk drive.
TYPE — Display the contents of a file.
UNDELETE — Undelete a file that has been deleted.
UNFORMAT — Unformat a hard disk drive.
UNLOCK — Unlock a disk drive.
VER — Display the version information.
VERIFY — Enables or disables the feature to determine if files have been written properly.
VOL — Displays the volume information about the designated drive.
XCOPY — Copy multiple files, directories, and/or drives from one location to another.
TRUENAME — When placed before a file, will display the whole directory in which it exists
TASKKILL — It allows you to kill those unneeded or locked up applications

UUhh.. oh yeah.. credits to some of my reliable sites [my sources] I don't need to cite the names :)) Thanks a lot guys!

P.S. for those of you who doesn't have any ANSWERS for question NUMBER TWO, lolx I have decided to not post 'em but I'll give you a hunch--> FILE SYSTEM is a method for storing and organizing files of the computer and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them.

I hope that helps XD.

much love,
Angie