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Kingston – Books 15 – IMG_7241

Illustrated; Screen Shots; Tables

Author: Judd Robbins

Publisher: Sybex

Table of Contents (In Brief)

Part I.  Getting Started

Chapter 1.  The Fundamentals of DOS

Chapter 2.  Your First Steps with DOS

Chapter 3.  Up and Running

Part II.  Understanding the DOS Shell

Chapter 4.  Introducing the File System

Chapter 5.  Manipulating Files and Directories

Chapter 6.  Running Application Programs

Part III.  Completing the Fundamentals

Chapter 7.  Printing

Chapter 8.  Communicating with Other devices

Chapter 9.  Customizing: Optimizing DOS for Your System

Chapter 10.  Redirecting and Rearranging Your Information

Chapter 11.  Making Backups and Restoring Files

Part IV.  Presenting Two Powerful DOS 5 Resources

Chapter 12.  Using the Full-Screen Editor

Chapter 13.  QBasic: Programming for Any DOS User

Part V.  Saving Time with Batch Files

Chapter 14  The Power of Dos Batch Files

Chapter 15.  Using Subcommands in Batch Files

Chapter 16.  Sophisticated Batch-File Examples

Part VI.  Going Beyond

Chapter 17.  DOS Macros and Advanced Command Techniques

Chapter 18.  Using Specialized DOS Commands

Chapter 19  Managing Memory Beyond the 640K Limit

Appendices

Appendix A.  Installing DOS 5

Appendix B.  Partitioning Your Hard Disk

Appendix C.  ASCII Codes

Appendix D.  International Setup

Appendix E.  Glossary

Appendix F.  Command Reference

Index

Paperback  828 pages  ISBN: 0-89588-767-3

Note:  DOS was the underlying Operating System in All the early Windows programs.  The first True Windows Operating System was Windows 2000.  But Windows 2000 and later versions have a built in DOS shell emulator.

Difference between DOS and Windows

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/difference-between-dos-and-windows

MS-DOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS