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DOS How to look at and work on DANGER

DOS (Disc Operating System)

The code which Gates, and another person wrote and IBM did not want to buy it but agreed to give them a royalty on all sales.

You would not be surprised to hear that Gates is pleased they didn’t Buy.

Sometimes you have to go into DOS to sort out problems similar to a person who had O.Bat and needed to clear it.

Well hear are a few tips as to how:‐

Click the “ cmd” icon (Command Prompt ) in Start > Accessories 6th one down



When the chevron “> “ appears and you wish to see all the (Dir)’s in the drive type after the chevron “ dir/w/p” (Without the quotes) Dir means all in the directory /w means spread the list across the page /p means wait until I press a key before scrolling.

You will now see the contents of the drive.

If you wish to change drives type “ cd (space ) D: or cd\d:

Try either.

If you wish to look in one of the directories type “ cd (space) [ name of dir as seen displayed on the screen]”

If you need to clear an item type “del [name of item i.e. O.Bat] “, ( O.bat is an example )

But before you do, make a note on the computer of what you are doing and when,

Type as follows :‐

After the chevron” > “ in the chosen dir type “ Rem.ʺ [ do not miss out the full stop] then e.g ʺDeleted O.bat may 04 .”

When you again look at this directory in 4 months time you will then be reminded what you did and when.

Simple good housekeeping