Commodore PC - What are command options?; Command Options

20 MS-DOS User's Reference
External and internal commands are shown by the following
symbols:
U
i
This shows that the command is internal.
This shows that the command is external.
Some of the ms-dos 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
What are command
options?
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]
u
u
u
u
u
u
u
u
u
u