Tandy 1000 MS-DOS User Manual

Chapter 5 / MS-DOS Commands
How to Use the Comnland Reference
Command lines can be divided into two parts, the command
name and the command parameters. Some parameters are
required; others are optional. If you omit an optional parameter,
the system provides a default parameter. For example, the sys-
tem defaults to the current drive whenever you omit the drive as
part of a pathname.
Required and optional parameters and default values vary with
different commands. Here is an example of how to interpret com-
mand lines:
COpy source pathname [target pathname] [/A][/BUIV]
• COPY is
the command name you type to call up the
COPY function. Although you may enter a command
name in either uppercase or lowercase, for your conven-
ience
command names are presented in uppercase in this
manual.
• source pathname is a required parameter. Parameters
not surrounded by brackets are essential to the operation
and must be included in the command line. In this case
source pathname is the name of the file you wish to copy.
Example:
COpy myfile.
• [target
pathname] is an optional parameter. Include
descriptions or values for parameters surrounded by
brackets only if you wish to change the default descrip-
tion or value.
In this case if you omit target pathname,
MS-DOS will give the new copy the same filename as
the original file.
• [fA], [/B],
and [IV] are optional switches. Again, include
them in the command line only if you wish to change the
default settings of these switches. In this case the
switches are used to copy files in ASCII format and to
add or delete
EOF characters from the files.
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Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Specifications

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Brand	Tandy
Model	1000 MS-DOS
Category	Desktop
Language	English