Ms Dos

[Nic]

I had this cazy idea to put DOS on my laptop, which I did. Its not too bad I like all the old games and what not, however how the hell do i open a folder. I always though it was dir/s but that doesnt seem to be working.

Now Im getting the idea i should use the cd command but i dont knwo what to type after it

 

[pelvis_3]

Simply dir gives you the listing, cd\"folder name" to change to folder, cd\ to level up directory!
Example >
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[Addis]

//example if the dir u need to go to is C:\temp\ and you're in C:\
cd temp

directories are not case sensitive.

 

[Nic]

Nice one I was putting the colon and backslash in thanks addis

 

[Nic]

Right okay so ive installed DOS. But it still asks me for a boot disk. Is that normal?? Sorry about the stupid questions but last time I used DOS was a long time ago.

 

[pelvis_3]

When does it ask you for a boot disk?

 

[Nic]

its okay i reinstalled it and it not doing it now

 

[ThePenguinCometh]

It's a bit of a wild guess but it could be looking for a file called command.com which is what DOS uses to interpret commands. To get around that you would copy the file to c:\ and use the command "set comspec=c:\command.com" to tell DOS to find the file on the hard-drive. Add that line to the file autoexec.bat and it'll look in the hard-drive for the file the next time you reboot.