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The version included with PC DOS 3.0 and 3.1 is hard-coded to transfer the operating system from A: to B:, while from PC DOS 3.2 onward you can specify the source and destination, and can be used to install DOS to the harddisk. The version included with MS-DOS 4 and PC DOS 4 is no longer a simple command-line utility, but a full-fledged installer.
The category DOS commands deals with articles related to internal and external commands supported by members of the family of DOS compatible operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers, such as MS-DOS, PC DOS, DR DOS, Concurrent DOS, Multiuser DOS, REAL/32, FlexOS, Novell DOS, PalmDOS, OpenDOS, FreeDOS, RxDOS, ROM-DOS, Embedded DOS, etc.
MS-DOS / PC DOS and some related disk operating systems use the files mentioned here. System Files: [1] IO.SYS (or IBMBIO.COM): This contains the system initialization code and builtin device drivers; MSDOS.SYS (or IBMDOS.COM): This contains the DOS kernel. Command-line interpreter (Shell): COMMAND.COM: This is the command interpreter.
On this page can be found the various shells that are available for DOS operating systems. Pages in category "DOS command shells" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
COMMAND.COM is the default command-line interpreter for MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me.In the case of DOS, it is the default user interface as well. [2] It has an additional role as the usual first program run after boot (init process), hence being responsible for setting up the system by running the AUTOEXEC.BAT configuration file, and being the ancestor of all processes.
Here are some Windows key commands and what they do: Windows key (Win): opens the Start menu on your computer. Windows button + Tab: switch your view from one open window to the next.
The hardware code page of the original IBM PC supplied the following box-drawing characters, in what DOS now calls code page 437. This subset of the Unicode box-drawing characters is thus included in WGL4 and is far more popular and likely to be rendered correctly:
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