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myLot reputation of 99/100. mysf71 (528) 3 years ago

Windows has trodden a long way. You don't need to memorize commands since GUI presents you the options of clicking. I remember those days in 1991-92 when I used DOS and had to remember hundreds of commands. cd, md, deltree, dir, defrag, etc were the commands. Memorizing them was good for me and gave me lots of benefit. This pays a lot even now when my PC goes nuts! I can run many DOS commands to recover my PC from a major disaster.

What about you? Do you remember (or still use) the DOS commands?

 

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1. myLot reputation of 98/100. voldrox (3522)   ranked 10 out of 8,747 in computers   3 years ago

hi
i don't remember any DOS commands anymore, that was quiet a long time back!
maybe just this one cd:/ lol and i am not even sure about it, it was something like that and i can not recall...haha

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2. myLot reputation of 47/100. paoxav (1115)   ranked 1,135 out of 8,747 in computers   3 years ago

Yeah. I'm glad that I knew or I could say that I master the DOS commands a decade ago. I still used DOS commands to troubleshoot computers, mostly if Windows is corrupted.. But anyway, there's a big difference now with the present DOS commands.. Some are gone mostly those system files and some syntax on dir..

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3. myLot reputation of 93/100. logaritse (288)   ranked 882 out of 8,747 in computers   3 years ago

Yes i'm still remember, even for dos 6.22 :) i guess until now we still using dos command in windows. And i still remember utility for dos like norton utility and midnight commander.

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4. myLot reputation of 57/100. wanpisu (195)   ranked 1,697 out of 8,747 in computers   3 years ago

I still used DOS command but I only remember a few important command. When troubleshooting a network problem or setting up a network command like ping and ipconfig are really useful. I think its faster than using a GUI utilities. I'm not saying that GUI is bad but the command is a built in program and you can use it straight away without installing any third party utilities. But when using Linux I always prefer command line over GUI.

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5. myLot reputation of 85/100. amitavroy (4199)   ranked 965 out of 8,747 in computers   3 years ago

well yes i very well remember the dos commands. actually i use them even now when required. like soemtimes when my OS gets corrupted, that time we have to use a lot of DOS commands to get things in working order and so i think they are the basic things that every one in computer field should know. they are must.

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6. myLot reputation of 98/100. ladym33 (8109)   ranked 2,304 out of 8,747 in computers   3 years ago

I remember the language, I remember when it was more popular but I don't remember any of the commands. I also remember doing Lotus and Word Star, but I don't remember any of the commands. I do actually remember some of Lotus, because some of the same commands still work on Excel. But there have been many different word processing, programs ans well as computer programing languages that have come and gone over the years. Everything so much easier now.

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7. myLot reputation of 61/100. deejlux (395)   ranked 1,609 out of 8,747 in computers   3 years ago

---hello.bat---

@echo off
cls
@echo Hello!

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LoL :P

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8. myLot reputation of 94/100. levite (515)   ranked 8,392 out of 8,747 in computers   3 years ago

I can still remember dir, cd, rd, md, label, path, tree, del, ren, copy. They are still essential to me when times of bugs and viruses attacked my pc. I love to use it until now when trouble starts.

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