Learning about commands of DOS

Below is a listing of each of the MS-DOS commands and explanation of what each of the commands do :

CLS Clear screen

DELETE Recovery console command that deletes a file

DELTREE Deletes one or more files and/or directories

DISKCOPY Copy the contents of one disk and place them on another disk

ERASE Erase files from computer

EXIT Exit from the command interpreter

FDISK Utility used to create partitions on the hard disk drive

FIXMBR Writes a new boot record to a disk drive

FORMAT Command to erase and prepare a disk drive

IPCONFIG Network command to view network adapter settings and assigned values

MKDIR Command to create a new directory

PING Test / send information to another network computer or network device

PRINT Prints data to a printer port

PROMPT View and change the MS-DOS prompt

REN Renames a file or directory

RENAME Renames a file or directory

RMDIR Removes an empty directory

SCANDISK Run the scandisk utility

SCANREG Scan registry and recover registry from errors

SYS Transfer system files to disk drive

TELNET Telnet to another computer / device from the prompt

TRACERT Visually view a network packets route across a network

UNDELETE Undelete a file that has been deleted

UNFORMAT Unformat a hard disk drive