Bit of a historical question: MS-DOS
"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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I've been trying to remember this, and I honestly can't remember it
anymore. In MS-DOS, where were the standard external commands located?
The only thing I remember about MS-DOS was that the command.com was
located in the root directory (along with autoexec.bat, config.sys,
and the hidden files msdos.sys & io.sys). Slightly different names for
the PC-DOS version, such as pcdos.sys & ibmio.sys, but otherwise
identical. The standard external commands were those like chkdsk or
xcopy, which weren't built into the command.com. Was there an MSDOS
folder or something which contained these commands?
Yousuf Khan
As I recall, the default location for MS-DOS (at least v. 5 and 6.x) was
at C:\DOS
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Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
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