Tandy 1000 MS-DOS User Manual

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Chapter 6 / Command Reference
• Remember, the target disk must be formatted and the
target directory must exist.
Examples
copy *. * / a b: I ENTER I
copies all the files from A: \ to B: \.
mk d 1 r \ bin I ENTER I
cop Y for mat . com \ bin I ENTER I
transfers external commands to another directory by first creat-
ing the directory \ BIN
in the root directory of the system disk
in Drive A and copying Format.com into it. You can now copy
any other .com files you use regularly into the \BIN directory.
copy \per50nal.dat b: I ENTER I
copies the file personal.dat from the root directory of Drive A to
the current directory of Drive B.
copy mem05.txt /a b:corr.txt I ENTER I
copies the file Memos. txt from the current directory to the' cur-
rent directory of the disk in Drive B, naming the new file
Corr.txt. MS-DOS copies information only up to
the first EOF
character
and adds an EOF character to the end of the new file.
copy b:taxe583.dat /a taxe584.dat I ENTER I
copies the file Taxes83.dat from the current directory in Drive B
to
the current directory on the current disk, naming the new file
Taxes84.dat. MS-DOS copies information only up to the first
EOF character
and adds an EOF character to the end of the new
file.
cop Y pro 9 . ex e b: pro 91 . ex e I ENTER I
copies the file Prog.exe that is in the current directory to the
current directory of Drive B. MS-DOS does not add an EOF
character to
the end of the new file, Progl.exe.
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Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Specifications

General

Brand	Tandy
Model	1000 MS-DOS
Category	Desktop
Language	English