MS-DOS adalah singkatan dari Microsoft Disk Operating System, yaitu Sistem Operasi berbasis baris-perintah (command-line) yang digunakan pada PC. Seperti sistem operasi lain contohnya OS/2, ia menterjemahkan input dari keyboard menjadi pekerjaan yang dapat dilakukan oleh komputer, ia juga dapat menangani pekerjaan seperti input dan output pada disket atau harddisk, dukungan video, kontrol keyboard , dan banyak lagi fungsi-fungsi internal lainnya yang berkaitan dengan eksekusi sebuah program dan pemeliharaan file.
Perintah MS-DOS diketikkan dalam sebuah jendela yang disebut Command Prompt Window. Untuk keluar dari MS-DOS, ketik exit dalam jendela tersebut yaitu pada kursor yang berkedip-kedip.
MS-DOS Mode adalah sebuah shell dimana lingkungan MS-DOS di-emulasikan dalam Sistem Operasi 32-bit, seperti Windows. Program berbasis MS-DOS dapat berjalan di Windows dan biasanya ia membuat sebuah file yang disebut Program Information File (PIF) yang muncul sebagai shortcut di desktop anda.
Berikut ini daftar perintah - perintah dari MS-DOS :
- APPEND : Causes MS-DOS to look in other directories when editing a file or running a command.
- ARP : Displays, adds, and removes arp information from network devices
- ASSIGN : Assign a drive letter to an alternate letter
- ASSOC : View the file associations
- AT : Schedule a time to execute commands or programs.
- ATMADM : Lists connections and addresses seen by Windows ATM call manager.
- ATTRIB : Display and change file attributes.
- BATCH : NRecovery console command that executes a series of commands in a file.
- BOOTCFG : Recovery console command that allows a user to view, modify, and rebuild the boot.ini
- BREAK : Enable / disable CTRL + C feature.
- CACLS : View and modify file ACL's.
- CALL : Calls a batch file from another batch file.
- CD : Changes directories.
- CHCP : Supplement the International keyboard and character set information.
- CHDIR Changes directories.
- CHKDSK : Check the hard disk drive running FAT for errors.
- CHKNTFS : Check the hard disk drive running NTFS for errors.
- CHOICE : Specify a listing of multiple options within a batch file.
- CMD : Opens the command interpreter.
- COLOR : Easily change the foreground and background color of the
- COMPACT : Compresses and uncompress files.
- CONTROL : Open control panel icons from the MS-DOS prompt.
- CONVERT : Convert FAT to NTFS.
- COPY : Copy one or more files to an alternate location.
- CTTY : Change the computers input/output devices.
- DATE : View or change the systems date.
- DEBUG : Debug utility to create assembly programs to modify hardware settings.
- DEFRAG : Re-arrange the hard disk drive to help with loading programs.
- DEL : Deletes one or more files.
- DELETE : Recovery console command that deletes a file.
- DELTREE : Deletes one or more files and/or directories.
- DIR : List the contents of one or more directory.
- DISABLE : Recovery console command that disables Windows system services or drivers.
- DISKCOMP : Compare a disk with another disk.
- DISKCOPY : Copy the contents of one disk
- DOSKEY : Command to view and execute commands that have been run in the past.
- DOSSHELL : A GUI to help with early MS-DOS users.
- DRIVPARM : Enables overwrite of original device drivers.
- ECHO : Displays messages and enables and disables echo.
- EDIT : View and edit files.
- EDLIN : View and edit files.
- EMM386 : Load extended Memory Manager.
- ENABLE : Recovery console command to enable a disable service or driver.
- ENDLOCAL : Stops the localization of the environment changes enabled by the setlocal command.
- EXPAND : Expand a Microsoft Windows file back to it's original format.
- EXIT : Exit from the command interpreter.
- EXTRACT : Extract files from the Microsoft Windows cabinets.
- FASTHELP : Displays a listing of MS-DOS commands and information about them
- FDISK : Create the partitions on the hard disk drive.
- FIND : Search for text within a file.
- FINDSTR : Searches for a string of text within a file.
- FIXBOOT : Writes a new boot sector.
- FIXMBR : Writes a new boot record to a disk drive.
- FOR : Boolean used in batch files.
- FORMAT : Command to erase and prepare a disk drive.
- FTP : Command to connect and operate on a FTP server.
- FTYPE : Displays or modifies file types used in file extensio asociations.
- GOTO : Moves a batch file to a specific label or location.
- GRAFTABL : Show extended characters in graphics mode.
- HELP : Display a listing of commands and brief explanation.
- IF : Allows for batch files to perform conditional processing.
- IFSHLP.SYS : 32-bit file manager.
- IPCONFIG : Network command to view network adapter settings and assigned values.
- KEYB : Change layout of keyboard.
- LABEL : Change the label of a disk drive.
- LH : Load a device driver in to high memory.
- LISTSVC : Recovery console command that displays the services and drivers.
- LOADFIX : Load a program above the first 64k.
- LOADHIGH : Load a device driver in to high memory.
- LOCK : Lock the hard disk drive.
- LOGON : Recovery console command to list installations and enable administrator login.
- MAP : Displays the device name of a drive.
- MD : Command to create a new directory.
- MEM : Display memory on system.
- MKDIR : Command to create a new directory.
- MODE : Modify the port or display settings.
- MORE : Display one page at a time.
- MOVE : Move one or more files from one directory to another DIRECTORY
- MSAV : Early Microsoft Virus scanner.
- MSD : Diagnostics utility.
- MSCDEX : Utility used to load and provide access to the CD-ROM.
- NBTSTAT : Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT
- NET : Update, fix, or view the network or network settings
- NETSH : Configure dynamic and static network information from MS-DOS.
- NETSTAT : Display the TCP/IP network protocol statistics and information.
- NLSFUNC : Load country specific information.
- NSLOOKUP : Look up an IP address of a domain or host on a network.
- PATH : View and modify the computers path location
- PATHPING : View and locate locations of network latency
- PAUSE : command used in batch files to stop the processing of a command.
- PING : Test / send information to another network computer or network device .
- POPD : Changes to the directory or network path stored by the pushd command.
- POWER : Conserve power with computer portables.
- PRINT : Prints data to a printer port.
- PROMPT : View and change the MS-DOS prompt.
- PUSHD : Stores a directory or network path in memory so it can be returned to at any time.
- QBASIC : Open the QBasic.
- RD : Removes an empty directory.
- REN : Renames a file or directory.
- RENAME : Renames a file or directory.
- RMDIR : Removes an empty directory.
- ROUTE : View and configure windows network route tables.
- RUNAS : Enables a user to execute a program on another
- SCANDISK : Run the scandisk utility.
- SCANREG : Scan registry and recover registry from errors.
- SET : Change one variable or string to another.
- SETLOCAL : Enables local environments to be changed without affecting anything else.
- SHARE : Installs support for file sharing and locking capabilities.
- SETVER : Change MS-DOS version to trick older MS-DOS programs.
- SHIFT : Changes the position of replaceable parameters in a batch program.
- SHUTDOWN : Shutdown the computer from the MS-DOS prompt.
- SMARTDRV : Create a disk cache in conventional memory or extended memory.
- SORT : Sorts the input and displays the output to the screen.
- START : Start a separate window in Windows from the MS-DOS prompt.
- SUBST : Substitute a folder on your computer for another drive letter.
- SWITCHES : Remove add functions from MS-DOS.
- SYS : Transfer system files to disk drive.
- TELNET : Telnet to another computer / device from the prompt.
- TIME : View or modify the system time.
- TITLE : Change the title of their MS-DOS window.
- TRACERT : Visually view a network packets route across a network.
- TREE : View a visual tree of the hard disk drive.
- TYPE : Display the contents of a file.
- UNDELETE : Undelete a file that has been deleted.
- UNFORMAT : Unformat a hard disk drive.
- UNLOCK : Unlock a disk drive.
- VER : Display the version information.
- VERIFY : Enables or disables the feature to determine if files have been written properly.
- VOL : Displays the volume information about the designated drive.
- XCOPY : Copy multiple files, directories, and/or drives from one location to another.
- TRUENAME : When placed before a file, will display the whole directory in which it exists
- TASKKILL : It allows you to kill those unneeded or locked up applications
