DEFAULT
OPTIONS
You will find that, for certain prompts,
DOS
automatically selects
an option; this is. called a default option. Generally, this will make
your task easier, but it is by no means an indication that you must
go along with the
DOS
selection.
DOS
has been carefully designed
to ensure that a default option will always be a safe way to go. For
example, there would never be a default option that would erase all
of the files on your fixed disk drive. However, just because the
computer makes a selection for you does not mean that you have to
go along with that selection.
For example, in Chapter
1,
you used the PARTITION command to
create partitions on the fixed disk drive. After you entered the
PARTITION command, you were given a choice
of
the various tasks
that can
be
performed under the PARTITION command.
DOS
assumed
that option number
1
wo
our choice.
If
it had been, you would
have simply pressed the key. In this case, however, your task
was to create a partition,
so
you ignored the default option
(1)
and
the option for creating a partition
(4)
before you pressed the
key.
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