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MS-DOS commands
Name: Scott Date: April 10, 2002 at 16:59:31 Pacific
Comment:
I have an old 486 with Dos 6.22 and I wan't to copy a folder from my C drive to a floppy disk. What do i type in Thanks
Name: spot Date: April 10, 2002 at 19:43:57 Pacific
Reply:
Type: cd (folder you want to copy) xcopy *.* a: (or b:) /s
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Response Number 2
Name: ray Date: April 11, 2002 at 02:36:54 Pacific
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Picky I know! But MS-DOS has Directories not Folders! Thats why some DOS commands are called DIR & RMDIR Folders is a Windows 9x thing!
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Response Number 3
Name: phil Date: April 11, 2002 at 15:48:54 Pacific
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Picky YES But also correct!
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Response Number 4
Name: fred6008 Date: April 11, 2002 at 20:29:47 Pacific
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Find the file you want to copy on C:. For example say you want to put HIMEM.SYS on a floppy and that you have it on C:\. You select drive c by typing C: and pressing enter. Then DIR and press enter to see the file you want. Then you enter COPY HIMEM.SYS A: (When you have a floppy disk in drive A:, of course) And when it has done this the computer will tell you "1 file(s) copied".
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Response Number 5
Name: ... Date: April 12, 2002 at 03:51:09 Pacific
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You may have to Change Directory to find the file you want. To Change Directory to C:\DOS Type CD DOS and press the enter key. Then type DIR again to find file. If files scroll down the page to fast, Try DIR/P or DIR/W (Pause or Wide)
You can see now what ray means about Directories in DOS, All the commands refer to them. COPY & XCOPY will both do to copy the file once you locate it (It is normaly in C:\DOS or C:\Windows)
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