You will find the complete list of MS-DOS commands below. However, MS-DOS commands are not the same as Windows command line commands or Powershell commands. MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is ...

The "Attrib" system command is used to change the attributes of a file from the DOS command line. While modern computers use Windows instead of DOS, the "Command Prompt" feature has the same ...

When one of only a handful of Windows servers that I manage dropped off my radar for a while, I wasn’t sure what to think. I had been running an application, for which this system was the server and ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

Now that I have upgraded my PC (running Windows ME) from 128 megabytes of RAM to 512 MB, I am wondering how I can determine if all that memory I purchased is indeed available. The best way to check ...

One of the commands that I miss most from Linux when working in Windows/DOS environments is the split command. This extremely handy command allows one to split a large file into multiple smaller files ...

When you create, access or modify a document, Windows automatically stamps the file with the system time. Though you can obtain the date and time information through several methods, one of the ...

Editor’s note: After this article was published, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that cmd.exe will not be going away after all. Read Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ follow-up column. My very first ...

Is there a DOS command and/or easy way to truncate / break large txt data into more managable chunks? checkedout Apr 10, 2003 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...