When the menu is displayed, you see this prompt at the bottom of the
screen:
Select command name, Enter to display
command, Esc to Exit
Use the cursor keys to select a command name. (You can only select one
command name at a time from the menu.) When the correct command is
highlighted, press
Enter.
The help screen for the specified command is dis-
played.
If there is more than one page of text, you see the prompt
PgUp
on the
top of the screen. Press
Page Up
(or
Pg Up)
to display the rest of the text.
After reading the help information, press
Esc
to return to the menu.
If you type
HELP
and one or more command names on the command
line, the help information for the first command is displayed. Press ESC to
see the help information for the next command. When you press
E
SC
after
viewing the information for the last command, MS-DOS returns to the
system prompt.
Caution
The help information is stored in the HELP.TXT file. If you copy
HELP.COM to another diskette or to your hard disk, you must also copy
HELP.TXT to the same disk. If they are not in the same path, you can use the
APPEND command to locate HELP.TXT.
Examples
To see help information for the COPY command, type the following
command and press
Enter:
HELP COPY
To see help information for the DISKCOPY and FORMAT commands,
type the following command line and press
Enter:
HELP DISKCOPY FORMAT
To see the help menu, type
HELP only and press
Enter.
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