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- COMMAND
-
- Any order you give to the computer by entering something on the keyboard.
- A command can make changes to files or what you see on the screen of your
- computer. Some commands always do the same thing, some commands do different
- things to different files each time you use the command, depending on what
- you type on the keyboard. Many commands you give the computer are executed
- by software that comes with DOS. The INTERNAL_COMMAND and EXTERNAL_COMMAND
- definitions list these commands.
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- Different manufacturers call commands different things. For example, Zenith
- documentation uses the term function when talking about commands.