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The COMMAND.COM file is copied to the ram disk during boot and the COMSPEC environment variable is set to the new location on the ram disk. This way the boot disk can be removed without the need to reinsert it after a big application has been stopped. The command line interpreter will be reloaded from the ram disk instead of the boot disk.
Command line -(num.) recall; recall the EVE command line (empty); enter Help to get the list of EVE commands Ctrl-B: recall; recall the EVE command line (with previous command); use Ctrl-U to clear it Text deleting Backspace: erases the character to the left of the cursor Ctrl-U: erase start of line; deletes everything to the left of the cursor ...
CHKDSK: Check disk for file system integrity. COMP: File compare utility. DEBUG: Simple command line debugger. DELTREE: Delete a directory tree. DISKCOMP: Compare floppy disks. DISKCOPY: Copy floppy disks. DOSKEY: Command line editor. EDIT / EDLIN: Very basic text editor(s); EDLIN is in earlier versions. FC: File compare utility. FDISK ...
Improved command line editing, including filename completion and command history; Support for command aliases, also in scripts; Enhanced wildcards and the ability to filter by file sizes, date and time stamps, and other file characteristics; Extended syntax for redirection and piping; Context-specific help; Colored directory listings
Edlin is a line editor, and the only text editor provided with early versions of IBM PC DOS, [1] MS-DOS and OS/2. [2] Although superseded in MS-DOS 5.0 and later by the full-screen MS-DOS Editor, and by Notepad in Microsoft Windows, it continues to be included in the 32-bit versions of current Microsoft operating systems.
CONFIG.SYS is the primary configuration file for the DOS and OS/2 operating systems.It is a special ASCII text file that contains user-accessible setup or configuration directives evaluated by the operating system's DOS BIOS (typically residing in IBMBIO.COM or IO.SYS) during boot.
Ctrl+l : Clears the screen content (equivalent to the command clear). Ctrl+n : recalls the next command (equivalent to the key ↓). Ctrl+o : Executes the found command from history, and fetch the next line relative to the current line from the history for editing. Ctrl+p : recalls the prior command (equivalent to the key ↑).
MS-DOS Editor, commonly just called edit or edit.com, is a TUI text editor that comes with MS-DOS 5.0 and later, [1] as well as all 32-bit x86 versions of Windows, until Windows 10. It supersedes edlin, the standard editor in earlier versions of MS-DOS. In MS-DOS, it was a stub for QBasic running in editor mode.