Talk:List of DOS commands

message: :Displays memory usage.
 mem
the command is not working in w7 x64.</br>
Olof nord (talk) 18:33, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: mem

message: =====cd or chdir=====
 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)
thread_title: CD

message: 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)
thread_title: cd or chdir

message: 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)
thread_title:  Extract 

message: Any thoughts on adding a ctty article? Surv1v4l1st (Talk|Contribs) 23:31, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't.  A useless MS DOS command, not usable for most applications. It's a one-line description here and that's all it needs. --Wtshymanski (talk) 17:49, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ctty article 

message: 71.112.17.101 (talk) 06:37, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Command line arguments 

message: 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)
thread_title:  CP/M references 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: As discussed in a withdrawn AfD nomination, this article might benefit from further compaction into something similar to the List of Unix commands.  However,  did a great job by  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)
replies: text: Thanks for the kind words. For my part, I am flexible on what format the content should take. Except for replacing wikilinks in subsection headers with  templates and condensing single sentence paragraphs into combined paragraphs, I did not change the formatting. There are a lot of commands and a table would be more compact, with less vertical space taken up by subsection headers and main links. As long as the table allowed for multi-line descriptions, it would be fine by me. But leaving the formatting as is would be fine, too--I don't have a strong preference.  --Mark viking (talk) 20:03, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article layout 

message: Is there a reason the command mountvol is not included? ZFT (talk) 16:47, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Because mountvol is not an internal or external command in any version of DOS. It is a Windows command and therefore does not belong into here. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 17:58, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  mountvol 

message: TIMEOUT should perhaps be added 94.30.84.71 (talk) 94.30.84.71 (talk) 12:47, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  TIMEOUT ?