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- PERSONAL PREFERENCE
-
- These DOS commands can be used to make the computer do things that are unique
- to you and your individual style of computing. You will use these fairly
- frequently during the first few months as you establish your preferences in
- using your computer, and then less often later on. The files DOS uses to
- remember your personal preferences are also reviewed.
-
- DOS COMMAND WHAT IT DOES
-
- APPEND* lets you tell DOS and your programs where to look for an
- input file when it can't be found.
- ASSIGN lets you use the drive letter you want rather than what some
- program wants to use.
- BREAK lets you decide how often you can interrupt programs on your
- computer.
- CHCP* changes the code page.
- DOSSHELL** provides a menu of DOS commands on the screen.
- GRAFTABL lets you see languages outside the USA on your screen
- GRAPHICS lets you print graphics images on the printer.
- JOIN lets you treat a disk drive as though it were a part of
- another disk drive.
- KEYB lets you type languages outside the USA on your keyboard.
- MEM** displays information about programs currently in memory.
- MODE lets you control some characteristics of the screen,
- communications and printer ports, and code pages.
- PROMPT does some of the same, plus controls colors.
- PATH lets you tell DOS where it should look when it can't find
- a command you give it.
- PROMPT lets you design your own prompt to be printed by DOS
- whenever it awaits your next command. Also does MODEish
- things and controls colors displayed by monitor.
- SHARE lets you tell DOS that you are part of a network.
- SUBST lets you call a long directory name by a short disk drive
- letter.
-
-
- Files you will change from time to time as part of personalizing the
- configuration and behavior of the computer to your taste include:
-
- FILE NAME WHY YOU NEED IT
-
- AUTOEXEC.BAT tells DOS all the commands you want executed every time you
- turn the computer on.
- CONFIG.SYS tells DOS about the devices you have added to your computer
- and configuration options you have selected to tailor system
- operation to your preferences.
-
- See the NEW_TERMS BOOT topic for a discussion of how these files are used
- during a boot. See the NEW_TERMS CODE_PAGE topic for a discussion of what
- these files need to contain to install or change country codes and code
- pages.