DOS Commands
Use HELP. The commands you will be using are DIR, CD and COPY. Do a COPY /? to get individual help on the COPY command, for example. Generally, DIR lists the files and directories on the hard disk. You usually start on the C: drive, to get to the root type C: and enter, then type CD \ and remember the backslash and forward slash have different meanings. Then type DIR to see all the files in the root directory. If an entry is listed as a <DIR>, type CD DIR where DIR is the directory entry. DIR also means folder. Then type DIR to see what's in that directory. To get to the next level directory, simply type CD DIR again, where DIR appeared in the previous directory listing.To copy large amounts of files to a new computer, DOS might recognize a USB hard disk, but don't hold me to it, that you simply connect to the USB port. The USB disk would have to be formatted in FAT32, not NTFS. Use the format command if you purchase a new USB disk, but be extremely careful because you can lose all you data if you do it wrong. For Windows 98, the USB hard disk must be less than about 120G, so find a small USB disk. If the USB hard disk becomes D:, then after CDing to the proper directory, use the copy command with the wildcard option to copy the files from the C: disk to the D: disk. Thus, COPY *.* D: will copy all files in the current directory to the root of the D: USB disk. Notice the period and the colon, since this font is small. If your computer has a floppy disk drive, you can copy small files to the floppy disk drive, the A: drive. This is the better bet than the USB disk. Thus, COPY FILE.TXT A: would copy a file named FILE.TXT to the floppy A: drive. The maximum size for a floppy disk is 1.44M, small. Have fun.
