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Dos commands Abbreviations

Look through 90 acronyms and abbreviations related to Dos commands:

PRINT — set up or load Print queue
PING — Packet InterNet Gopher
LABEL — modify, add or delete Volume Label
CMD — Command
RMDIR — Remove Directory
%% — identifies the variable in a Batch file FOR - %%A - IN ( [X] [Y] [Z] ) - DO loop
UMA — Upper Memory Area
SCANDISK — to scan the disk for any error in hard-disk sector which is used basically in-use windows 3.0 to windows Me. It is now replaced with chkdsk now
CHDIR — Change Directory
GRAPHICS — allows Graphics to pass from screen to Printer
@ — ECHO OFF Batch file command
EXE2BIN — Convert file from .EXE to .BIN (or .COM)
SC — Service Control
CHKDSK — Check Disk
FILCOM — Compare the contents of two Files
EXIST — a Batch command that tests for the existence of a specified file
UMB — Upper Memory Block (DOS)
CALL — Invoke a Batch file as a subroutine
RD — Remove Directory
CTTY — Changing To a Remote Terminal
APPEND — Application File search path
PATH — Search a specified Path (potentially in another directory)
ACME — Acme (computer virus), a computer virus which infects Microsoft DOS EXE files
MEM — MEMory - to display memory allocation and available
DISKCOPY — Copy Disk (drive to drive)
GOTO — an unconditional branch in a Batch file
DELTREE — delete a directory and everything that is in it (DANGER!)
%0 — a Batch command that replaces %0 with its own filename
NLSFUNC — National Language Support Function
BREAK — [ON/OFF] watch for a break in execution, or not
DEBUG — start a testing environment for binary files - and more
RENAME — Rename a file
DO — a Batch command that precedes the action to be performed in a loop
CLS — Clear the Screen
FIND — Find a specific 'string' within a file
KEYBXX — load Foreign Keyboard Code Page for non-US keyboard
COMMAND — a Batch command (under DOS 2.0)
EXIT — stop execution and close a Batch file
FORMAT — place tracks and sectors on a disk, making it addressable
DISKCOMP — Compare contents of Disks
COLOR — Change the color of the DOS environment
PAUSE — Stop execution, display a message, and wait for operator input
FDISK — Partition a Fixed Disk
ATTRIB — report a file's Attributes
FASTOPEN — Store in memory file locations to speed access
JOIN — Join Drive to subdirectory of another Drive
GRAFTABL — load Graphics Characters higher than ASCII 127
DEFRAG — optomize a disk drive (be careful)
BACKUP — Back-up files
MORE — display one screenful of data at a time