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Novell Dos

IBM introduced the PC that was standardized hardware in 1981. This lead DOS to became the standard Operating System for the personal computer. In 1990 DR DOS 5.0 was introduced by Digital Research. DR DOS 5.0 provides for the first time the interactive DOS installation and setup utilities. A year later Microsoft introduced MS-DOS 5.0 while Digital Research release DOS, version 6.0 with dynamic disk compression. In the summer of 1991 Novell Inc. purchased Digital Research Inc. Novell Inc. releases Novell DOS 7.0 operating system that enhances and advances the previous DOS. This Web site provides a list of tips and information on Novell DOS 7.0 operating system software. If you would like us to post information on a specific Novell DOS 7.0 operating system send us a request.

Note: DOS has three commands and instructions extension: COM (command), EXE (executable), AND BAT (batch files). The first two COM and EXE are program files that instruct the computer to execute the program file you created. BAT files are text files that contain a list commands, DOS prompt commons.

The most basic command in DOS is the DIR command. This command lists all the files and directories that are currently available in your system. DOS allows you to have switch for your DIR command. The following are a list of DIR command switches.
DIR /W	This command displays all files using the current default switches.
DIR / S	This command displays files that has the system attribute
DIR /A	This command displays all the files
DIR /C	This command displays no directories
DIR /R	This command make switches to become default
DIR /D	This command displays files without the system's attribute
DIR /L	This command displays long format with date, size, and time
DIR /N	This command displays
DIR /P	This command displays a one page at a time column files and directories and pauses.
DIR /2	This command displays two columns format with data, size and time