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From: gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (Tony GERARDIS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: HELP - files for the DOS system
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Date: 14 Apr 91 05:50:42 GMT
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In article <1386@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> andrew@cs.arizona.edu (Andrei V. Zaitsev) writes:
>The DOS seems to be the less self-documented system
>than any other system I know. I cannot memorize all
>the paramateres of FORMAT (XCOPY,etc) command and 
>when I don't have a DOS manual with me , nothing can
>help me.
>Does somebody know where I can get a file containing
>a brief description of the DOS commands ?
>(Of course , I can take a manual and create such I file
>by myself , but I suspect that somebody could have 
>already done this job before me ... ).

Try using MSDOS 5.0 if you can get your hands on it! You just type:
<command> /?  and you get the full syntax, explanation and parameters
for ALL of the executable commands! or you can simply type: help
<command>   and get the same effect! I used to have A program which used
to be a help utility for MSDOS 3.3 so I know independent one's exist.
Actually it was even PD, I had gotten it from an old version of COMPUTE
magazine (that came with disks)!!!

						   Tony Gerardis!