For Self-Study Purposes
Author’s Note: I created these DOS Lessons many years ago for an online site known as SmartPlanet. At that time, it was a place for people to come and learn about technology, and I participated as both a student and as an assistant instructor. I created these DOS Lessons then as a service for other SmartPlanet students, and then put them up on this Web site. Since then, I get e-mails from people several times a year thanking me for having them available. So as long as there are people who derive some value from them, I will keep them up on the site. I did notice that at one point I referred to Windows 98 as a “modern” operating system, so you can infer how old these lessons are from that comment. But since DOS has not changed much over the years, I don’t think this is a problem.
- Lesson One: Operating Systems
- Lesson Two: Booting
- Lesson Three: Internal Commands
- Lesson Four: External Commands; Emergency Boot Disk
- Lesson Five: The Path
- Lesson Six: Syntax, switches, and HELP
- Lesson Seven: DOS Filenames; ASCII
- Lesson Eight: Format; Copy; Diskcopy;Xcopy
- Lesson Nine: The File System
- Lesson Ten: Directory Commands
- Lesson Eleven: DOS Wildcards; File Attributes
- Lesson Twelve: Expert DIR Use
- Lesson Thirteen: BASIC
- Lesson Fourteen: EDIT
- Lesson Fifteen: Introduction to Batch Files
- Lesson Sixteen: Practicing Batch Files with ECHO
- Lesson Seventeen: Batch File Variables; Nested Batch Files
I see the DOS lessons list but there is no download link.
Yes, that is how it works. You read it on the Web site.
OK, but how do I find the lesson? There is only the list.
Look at the menu above. You can reach any of them from there.
Oh…there they are, after wandering around aimlessly. It would help if you linked them to the correct page.
Oh…there they are, after wandering around aimlessly. It would help if you linked them to the correct page. The heading was already highlighted so I expected to see some other links to the titles, the Google link sent me directly to this page.