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Juniper Systems Allegro DOS Manual User Manual

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* ANSI.SYS

A device driver that allows a common set of
commands to control the keyboard and screen.

# APPEND

Allows programs to open data files in specified
directories as if they were in the current directory.

* ATTRIB

Displays or changes file attributes.

+ BREAK

Sets or clears extended CTRL+C checking.

+ CHDIR

Changes the current directory.

+ CD

Short name for CHDIR command.

* CHKDSK

Checks a disk and displays a status report.

+ CLS

Clears the screen.

* COMMAND Starts a new instance of the MS-DOS command

interpreter.

+ COMP

Compares the contents of two files or sets of files.

+ COPY

Copies one or more files to another location.

+ CTTY

Changes the terminal device used to control your
system.

+ DATE

Displays or sets the date.

* DEBUG

Starts Debug, a program testing and editing tool.

DEFRAG

Reorganizes the files on a disk to optimize the
disk.

+ DEL

Deletes one or more files.

* DELTREE

Deletes a directory and all the files and sub-
directories in it.

+ DIR

Displays a list of files and sub-directories in a
directory.

* DOSKEY

Edits command lines, recalls MS-DOS commands,
and creates macros.

# DRVSPACE

Creates and manages drives compressed by using
DriveSpace.

* EDIT

Starts MS-DOS text Editor, which creates and
changes ASCII files.

* EMM386

Enables or disables EMM386 expanded memory
support.

+ ERASE

Deletes one or more files.

+ EXIT

Quits the COMMAND.COM program (command
interpreter).

* FASTHELP

Provides summary Help information for MS-DOS
commands.