

Some commands were built-in to the command interpreter, others existed as transient commands loaded into memory when required. In the personal computer operating systems MS-DOS and PC DOS, a number of standard system commands were provided for common tasks such as listing files on a disk or moving files. The more you know about MS-DOS, the better prepared you will be to understand the CLI of Windows. The commands and concepts of the command line interface (CLI) of Windows are based on the use of MS-DOS commands for backwards compatibility. Learning objective: Identify common DOS commandsĪs you go through this unit, keep in mind that we are not learning MS-DOS but the command line interface of Windows which is *based* on MS-DOS.

