Specifying the drive designator, Types of ms-dos commands, Enter: c:program – Epson Apex 20020 User Manual

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Specifying the Drive Designator

If you want to access a program or file on another drive without

first changing the default drive, type the drive designator along
with the filename. For example, if you are logged onto drive A

and want to use a file named PROGRAM on drive C, you
would type the following and then press

Enter:

C:PROGRAM

MS-DOS loads and executes the file named PROGRAM from
drive C, but stays logged onto drive A.

Types of MS-DOS Commands

Each MS-DOS command is either internal or external. Internal
commands are commands that are built into MS-DOS and can
be used at any time once MS-DOS is loaded into memory.
External commands are separate program files stored on your
hard disk and MS-DOS diskettes.

If you display a directory of the files on your MS-DOS

diskettes, you see the names of the external commands but not

the internal ones. The following lists show which external

commands are on which diskette.

Startup diskette

ANSI.SYS

COMMAND.COM
COUNTRY.SYS

DISPLAY.SYS

DRIVER.SYS
EGA.CPI
FASTOPEN.EXE

FDISK.COM

FORMAT.COM
KEYB.COM
KEYBOARD.SYS
MODE.COM
NLSFUNC.EXE

PRINTER.SYS

REPLACE.EXE

SELECT.COM
SYS.COM

VDISK.SYS

XCOPY.EXE
4201.CPI

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