Commodore PC 40 - Comprehensive MS-DOS Command Reference

120 MS-DOS User's Reference
What are command
options?
External and internal
commands are shown by the following
symbols:
This shows
that the command is internal.
This shows that
the command is external.
Some
of the MS-[)OS commands do not work over a computer
network. If you try to use these commands, MS-DOS displays the
error message "Cannot command to a network device," where
command is the name of the command you typed.
If the command does not work over a network (on a shared
or remote device), you will see this symbol in the command
description:
The commands that do not work over a network are:
chkdsk
diskcomp
diskcopy
fdisk
format
label
recover
subst
sys
Command Options
Command options give MS· DOS extra information about a com-
mand.
If you do not include some options, MS-DOS provides values
called
default values. For the default values of particular com-
mands,
you should refer to individual command descriptions in
this chapter.
MS· DOS commands use the following syntax:
command [options J
L.