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- CPMDOSXR.DOC 09/12/83 T. MCCORMICK DOS TO CPM XREF OF FILE FUNCTION
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- The following is a cross reference of IBM PC DOS commands to their
- "equivalent" (more or less) CP/M counterparts. This file should be
- useful to users familiar with CP/M and CP/M public domain files. Some
- of the files referenced ARE NOT public domain, however.
- IBM PC DOS VERSION 2.O (not 1.0 or 1.1) is being referenced, and it
- contains many commands and features not available under, or compatable
- with, older versions.
- CP/M version 2.xx is being referenced, and I am aware that many of
- the public domain and dealer supplied utilities have varying names for
- similar programs. I have made no attempt to present a comprehensive
- listing of CP/M filenames for similar functions. The CP/M novice will
- have to seek help from experienced CP/M users for that information.
- In some cases, there is no equivalent feature or command, so I have
- left a blank to indicate this (or for others to fill in!).
-
- PC DOS CP/M 80
- filename filename comment.....................................
- ------------ ------------ --------------------------------------------
- ADDLF .BAS FILTER .COM ADDS LINE FEEDS TO CARRIAGE RETUN ORPHANS
- ASSIGN no equiv DOS-LEVEL DETOUR FROM ONE DEVICE TO ANOTHER
- ASTCLOCK various AST COMBO BOARD DATE/TIME FETCH INTO DOS
- AUTOEXEC.BAT various ASCII FILE OF COMMANDS DONE AT COLD BOOT
- BACKUP .COM ARCHIVE .COM COPIES (OPTIONALLY) ONLY IF FILE CHANGED
- fn .BAT fn .SUB DOS BATCH FACILITY IS RESIDENT, EXTENSIVE
- various BYE .COM DOS VERSIONS (ie HOSTCOMM) ARE PROPRIETARY
- BACKUP .COM FROM FIXED DISK TO 1 OR MORE FLOPPIES
- WORKS WITH "RESTORE" UTILITY. SEE RESTORE.
- BACKUP5 .COM COPIES SOME "COPY PROTECTED" DISKETTES
- BACKUP6 .COM COPIES SOME "COPY PROTECTED" DISKETTES
- BASRUN .COM BRUN .COM COMPILED BASIC RUN-TIME MODULE
- BREAK=ON FORCE DOS TO TEST MORE FREQ. SEE CONFIG.SYS
- BUFFERS=10 ANY NUMBER FROM 1-99: DEFLT=2. SEE CONFIG.SYS
- CAPSLOCK FORCE KEYBOARD TO CAPS LOCK ON
- CAPTURE .COM MICROSHELL REDIRECT OUTPUT FROM PRINTER TO DISK FILE
- CATDISK .COM CAT1 CAT2 BOTH CREATE/MAINTAIN MASTER.CAT
- CATLBL .COM SAVE 0 B:-XX PLACES .LBL VOLUME LABELS ON DISKETTES
- CATQ .COM CAT CATQ IS ONE-UP ALPHA
- CAT-XREF.COM ONE FILENAME AND MANY VOLUME SERIAL NUMBERS
- CBBS .COM NO KNOWN PC EQUIV AS AN ASSEMBLY LANG SYSTEM
- CDIR .COM COMPARES DIRECTORIES, HIGHLIGHTS DIFFERENCES
- CHDIR SECTION .COM CHANGE DIRECTORY (DOS VER 2.0)
- CHKDSK .COM STAT etc CHECKS INTEGRITY, REPORTS SPACE USED/REMAINING
- ON A PARTICULAR DRIVE/DISKETTE, AND CAN DO SOME
- FILE RECOVERY WHEN CORRUPT STRINGS ARE FOUND.
-
- CLS various CLEAR SCREEN
- COMMAND .COM CCP equiv COMMAND IS LARGER, MORE EXTENSIVE THAN CCP,
- ...IT IS MORE LIKE MICROSHELL.
- NOTE: UNLESS COMMAND.COM IS PATCHED, DOS WILL
- RETURN TO A: TO RE-READ COMMAND.COM IF
- TRANSIENT PORTION OF COMMAND OVERLAYED
- BY LAST PROGRAM EXECUTED. VARIOUS
- PATCHES ARE AVAILABLE TO COMMAND.COM
- BUT THEY ARE NOT "INTERCHANGEABLE"
- WITHOUT A COLD BOOT.
- COMP COMPARE COMPARE TWO FILES
- CONFIG .SYS hot patches ASCII FILE OF DEVICE DRIVER NAMES, ETC AT BOOT
- ..this will make CP/M BIOS modifiers drool.
- COPY .COM PIP .COM COPY source.ft destin.ft
- FILECOPY.COM SINGLE FILE COPY USING ONE DRIVE
- MFT .COM SELECTED MULTI-FILES USING SINGLE DRIVE
- CTRL-BREAK CONTROL-C HALT PROGRAM IN PROCESS (USUALLY!) ELSE ON PC
- COLD BOOT WITH CTRL-ALT-BREAK, ELSE POWER OFF
- CTTY AUX STAT .COM CHANGES STD CONSOLE TO AUXILIARY ONE (bye?)
- DATE BRINGS DISPLAY AND PROMPT. SEE TIME.
- DEBUG .COM DDT .COM VERY SIMILAR SYNTAX (BY DESIGN)
- DEL ERA DEL B:*.BAS. SEE ALSO DOS VDEL.COM
- DIR|SORT/+10 1-UP DIRECTORY BY FILETYPE. SEE LF.COM.
- DIR|SORT/+22 WHATSNEW.COM 1-UP DIRECTORY BY DATE AND TIME.
- DISKCOMP.COM various COMPARES TWO DISKETTES FOR EXACTNESS
- DISKCOPY.COM ONECOPY .COM ENTIRE DISK COPY USING ONE DRIVE
- DOSKEY20.BAS MENU-DRIVEN UTIL TO CREATE .KEY FILE
- WHICH CAN BE "TYPE"'D AFTER ANSI.SYS
- DEVICE INCLUDED IN CONFIG.SYS THUS
- CONFIGURING PROGRAM FUNCTION KEYS AS
- DESIRED INCLUDING ENDING "RETURN".
- various DUMP .COM
- ECHO OFF BATCH SUBCOMMAND TOGGLE TO PREVENT
- COMMAND DISPLAYS DURING BATCH EXEC.
- EDLIN .COM ED .COM EDLIN SIMILAR TO ED; A LINE EDITOR
- ERASE afn.ft ERA afn.ft SAME AS DEL. SEE DEL and VDEL
- EXE2BIN .COM PART OF DOS 2.0; CONVERTS .EXE FILES
- (WHICH HAVE NO SEGMENT FIXUP) TO A
- FORM COMPATABLE WITH .COM FILES (WHICH
- ARE MEMORY IMAGE FILES).
- SEE PAGE 10-12 FF OF DOS 2.0 MANUAL
- FC2 .COM SWEEP .COM (C) DOS 2.0 FILE COMMAND UTILITY FROM IBM
- FC2 .COM WASH .COM (C) DOS 2.0 FILE COMMAND UTILITY FROM IBM
- FDISK .COM FORMAT FIXED (IBM HARD DISK)
- FILEFIND.COM SEARCH EVERYWHERE FOR FILENAME(S)
- FIND FILTER OF DOS 2.0; NO WILDCARDS
- FIND .COM FIND .COM DOS 2.0
- FORMAT .COM FORMAT .COM CP/M EQUIV MAY ALSO BE KNOWN AS INIT, COPY.
-
- GRAPHICS.COM PART OF DOS 2.0 TO ENABLE "MX80" TO
- DISPLAY GRAPHICS FROM CRT DISPLAYS.
- KSTACK .EXE XSUB .COM PRE-ENTER LIST OF PREDICTABLE RESPONSES
- LF .COM 6 UP ALPHA FILENAMES SORTED BY FILETYPE
- LINK .COM LOAD .COM SYSTEM LINKER FOR ASM, BASCOM, ETC.
- various LOOK .COM SEARCH MEMORY FOR HEX CHAR(S)
- MAGIC .COM DUU .COM DISK PHYSICAL EXAM AND CHANGE AT SECTOR LEVEL
- MD MAKE DIRECTORY ABBREVIATION FOR MKDIR
- MKDIR none MAKE DIRECTORY (DOS VER 2.0) (MD IS ABBREV)
- MODE .COM SEVERAL CP/M PROGRAMS TO SET BAUDRATE, ETC.
- MODE COM1:9600,N,8,1,P SET COMM PORT 1 9600 BAUD,NO PARITY,8 DATA, 1
- MODE LPT1:=COM2: ASSIGN SERIAL LINE PRINTER TO 2ND SERIAL PORT
- MODEM .COM MODEM3 .COM SINGLE FILE BUT ANY BAUD; WARD C TAILORED IT
- MODEM7XX.COM DOS HAS NO MULTI FILE XFER VERSION ...YET
- MORE .COM READ2 .COM DISPLAY 24 LINES AND PAUSE
- Norton utils FLAGS .COM SET CUSTOM FILE DIRECTORY ATTRIBUTES
- Norton utils UNERA .COM UN-ERASE A FILE...SOMETIMES
- NUL: DUMMY DEVICE FOR TESTING PURPOSES
- PATH ZCPR partial PATH C:\DIR1;\DIR2 searches those dirs
- PAUSE BATCH FACILITY SUBCOMMAND REQUIRING KEY
- STRIKING TO PROCEED (IE DISK CHANGE, ETC.)
- PCSORT .COM various PCSORT fn.ft,1,12. PART OF PC-FILE $35.
- PC-TALK .COM SMARTMODEM 300/1200 $35 .BAS XMODEM (SINGLE FILE) COMPAT
- |pipes I/O-CAP .COM DOS 2.0 HAS POWERFUL REDIRECTED I/O
- |pipes MICROSHELL (c) PROGRAM UNDER CP/M TO REDIRECT I/O
- PRINT .COM MLIST+DSPOOL QUEUE AND BACKGROUND PRINT 1 TO 10 FILES.
- PROMPT patches ALTER SYSTEM PROMPT WITH SINGLE COMMAND
- ..can include date, time, cur dir, drive, etc
- RBBS .BAS RBBS .BAS PUBLIC DOMAIN DERIVED FROM CP/M MBASIC VERSION
- RD REMOVE DIRECTORY IF ALL FILES DELETED FROM IT;
- RD IS ABBREV FOR RMDIR. SEE MKDIR AND MD ALSO
- RECOVER fn PART OF DOS 2.0 RECOVERS INDIVIDUAL FILE
- RECOVER B: UNERA B:*.* PART OF DOS 2.0 ASSUMES DIR CORRUPT (p6-126)
- RENAME REN RENAME B:OLD.* NEW.* (NOTE WILDCARDS)
- RESTORE RESTORES ONE OR MORE FILES DISKETTE TO HARD
- SEE "BACKUP" FOR MOVING FILES OTHER DIRECTION
- RMDIR REMOVE DIRECTORY (SEE "RD" ABBREVIATION)
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- SD .COM SD .COM DOS VER IS 2 UP; SHOWS DATE/TIME, NOT K USED
- SET TO INSERT STRINGS INTO THE COMMAND PROCESSOR'S
- ENVIRONMENT THUS REDUCING KEYING OR NEAR-SAME
- COMMANDS IN BAT FILES, ETC.
- NOTE: GREATEST USE IS TO POINT DOS TOWARD A
- DISK OTHER THAN A: TO RELOAD COMMAND.COM.
- THIS IS READILY DONE IN CONFIG.SYS
- SHELL=FN.FT SPECIFY REPLACEMENT FOR COMMAND.COM ("ccp")
- ...SEE CONFIG.SYS (SECT 9 OF DOS 2.0 MANUAL)
- SORT DOS 2.0 RESIDENT FILTER
- SORT .COM files INTEGRAL DOS 2.0 FILTER
- SPOOL .COM UNSPOOL .COM DISK TO PRINT
- SQ .COM SQUEEZE UTILITY
- STAT .COM VARIOUS DOS PROGRAMS ie CHKDSK HIDEFILE MODE
- STDIN/OUT XSUB .COM PRE-ENTER LIST OF PREDICTABLE INPUT INCL BASIC
- SUPERC .COM SUPER FILE COMPARE: SPACES, ETC.
- SUPERDRV C:/U=128 SET UP RAM DISK AFTER RESERVING 128 K USER AREA
- SUPERSPL LPT1:=COM2:/RATE=9600,N,8,1/U=128/M=32 32 K PRINT BUFFER IN R
- SYS .COM SYSGEN .COM FUNCTIONS DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY
- IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM HIDDEN FILES ARE
- MOVED TO SACRED AREA OF FORMATTED DISKETTE
- SIMILAR TO CP/M "BOOT TRACKS".
- THESE TWO, PLUS COMMAND.COM, NEEDED TO BOOT
- MOVCPM .COM NO DOS EQUIVALENT
- TIME BRINGS DISPLAY AND PROMPT. SEE DATE
- TREE .COM DISPLAY ALL DIR/SUB-DIR RELATIONSHIPS (FILES)
- USQ .COM USQ .COM UNSQUEEZE UTILITY COMPATABLE WITH CP/M USQ
- VERIFY ON TOGGLES THIS SYSTEM CALL UNTIL RESET
- DEFAULT IS OFF. CAN USE IN CONFIG.SYS
- OR AT SYSTEM PROMPT TO FORCE VERIFICATION
- OF DISK READS/WRITES
- VOL various DISPLAY VOLUME IDENTIFICATION
- OR AT SYSTEM PROMPT TO FORCE VERIFICATION
- OF DISK READS/WRITES
- VOL various DISP