DOS Made Easy Book

This is a hands-on tutorial on running the latest release of DOS. The book begins with an overview of a computer system's components, before detailing how to run DOS for the first time. The author clearly covers the DOS shell, the File System and DOS tree-structured directories. The book also shows readers how to use advanced features, including using the new DOS interface, configuring the Shell and configuring DOS. The book contains plenty of examples, exercises, illustrations and diagrams, and teaches all versions of DOS from scratch through step-by-step lessons designed to get novices up and running quickly. The clear writing style, multitude of illustrations and detailed descriptions of all the important features are designed to make DOS easy. This book includes tips and notes. The first chapters describe computer basics, the DOS Shell, File Manager, and Program Manager. Following chapters outline the DOS editor, the Command Prompt, batch files and I/O (input/output). Subsequent chapters discuss recovering from mistakes, configuring DOS, and floppy and hard disk management.Read More