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Using Disks and Disk Drives.
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2-6
How Disks Store Data
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2-6
Choosing Diskettes.
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2-8
Caring for Diskettes and Diskette Drives
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2-9
Inserting and Removing Diskettes
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2-11
Write-protecting Diskettes
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2-13
Making Backup Copies
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2-14
Using a Single Diskette Drive
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2-15
Using the Hard Disk Drive
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2-16
Chapter 3
Using MS-DOS With Your Computer
Starting
and Exiting MS-DOS
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3-2
Starting An Application Program.
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3-2
Using Drive Designators
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3-3
The Default Drive.
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3-3
Types of MS-DOS Commands
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3-4
Entering an MS-DOS Command
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3-6
Creating and Managing Files
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3-8
Naming Files.
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3-9
Copying Files
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3-10
Renaming Files
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3-12
Deleting Files
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3-13
Printing Files.
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3-14
Using Directories.
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3-15
The Default Directory
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3-17
Changing the Default Directory
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3-17
Using Pathnames
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3-18
Including Filenames With Pathnames
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3-19
Including Drive Letters With Pathnames
and Filenames
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3-19
Creating Directories
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3-21
Listing the Contents of a Directory
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3-22
Displaying
a
List of Directories.
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3-23
Removing Directories.
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3-24
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