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4DOS
4OS2
4DOS for Windows NT
Guided Tour
Published By
JP Software Inc.
P.O. Box 1470
East Arlington, MA 02174
U.S.A.
(617) 646-3975
fax (617) 646-0904
Copyright 1993 - 1994, JP Software Inc., All Rights Reserved. 4DOS
is a registered trademark and 4OS2, JP Software, and the JP
Software logo and product logos are trademarks of JP Software Inc.
Other product and company names are trademarks of their respective
owners.
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Starting The Tour
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A GUIDED TOUR OF 4DOS, 4OS2, and 4DOS/NT
This booklet will acquaint you with some of the features of 4DOS,
4OS2, and 4DOS/NT. It isn't a substitute for the other manuals,
but it will help you understand how familiar our products seem if
you are used to the traditional command prompt, and it will
introduce you to many of our most popular features and
enhancements. By the time you finish this guided tour, you will
have a feeling for how easy and friendly 4DOS, 4OS2, and 4DOS/NT
are compared to the traditional command processor.
This tour is interactive. Sit down at your computer with this
booklet. Each time an example is shown, try it. The tour will
create all of the files it uses; it won't modify or change your
existing files and subdirectories at all. Each section of the tour
is self-contained so you can skip any sections you wish and return
to them later.
In this tour we won't attempt to cover all the details of each
feature we introduce. If you want complete information about any
command or topic discussed in the tour, see the online help or the
Reference Manual. If you come across terms or concepts that you
are unsure about, refer to the General Concepts chapter, the
Glossary, or the Index in the Reference Manual.
Starting The Tour
Before you can start the tour, you need to install your new
command processor. If you haven't done so yet, see the
Introduction and Installation Guide for instructions. Select
"Tour Installation" from the INSTALL menu to copy the
necessary files to your disk without making any modifications
to your system configuration files. If you have already done
a full installation and 4DOS, 4OS2, or 4DOS/NT is running on
your system, just skip the step below where the command
"4DOS", "4OS2", or "4NT" is entered.
During the course of the tour, we'll ask you to enter several
commands. Your entries are shown in lower case, but you can
type in either upper or lower case.
The display may look slightly different on your system,
depending on how your prompt is set up, what disk drive you're
using, and what files are in your installation directory.
Don't worry about any minor differences.
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A Guided Tour of 4DOS, 4OS2, and 4DOS/NT 1
Starting The Tour
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In some cases, the computer's output will be too long to fit
on a line of this booklet and remain readable. We've
truncated those lines and placed three dots [...] at the end
to show you that the actual line displayed on your screen will
be longer. Some commands create more lines of output than we
need to display here to show how they work. We've put a line
of nine dots [... ... ...] in those locations to indicate that
additional information will be shown on your screen.
We've written the tour as if you were using 4DOS, because it's
our most popular product. The few minor differences in 4OS2
and 4DOS/NT are noted in the text.
To start the tour, first change to the directory where 4DOS,
4OS2, or 4DOS/NT was installed, using the CD command. For
example, if you've used the directory C:\4DOS, enter the
following command:
C:\> cd 4dos
C:\4DOS>
Now start 4DOS by typing:
C:\4DOS> 4dos
This starts 4DOS in "test drive" mode -- it isn't permanently
installed, but you can use it for the tour or other testing.
If you are using 4OS2, type 4OS2; if you are using 4DOS/NT,
type 4NT. If you have already performed a full installation,
skip this step.
You'll see a sign-on message that looks similar to this,
followed by a prompt:
4DOS EMS swapping initialized (128K)
4DOS 5.5 DOS 6.2
Copyright 1988-1994 Rex Conn & JP Software Inc.
... ... ...
c:\4dos>
Depending on how your prompt was previously defined, you may
now see it in lower case, which most people find easier to
read. A lower case prompt is the default, and we'll show the
prompt that way throughout the tour. Once you have 4DOS,
4OS2, or 4DOS/NT fully installed you can use the PROMPT
command to change it to upper case if you prefer.
If you started 4DOS, 4OS2, or 4DOS/NT in "test drive" mode and
want to exit at any time, just type the command EXIT at the
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A Guided Tour of 4DOS, 4OS2, and 4DOS/NT 2
Basic Commands
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prompt and press Enter. This will return you to the
traditional DOS, OS/2, or Windows NT command line:
c:\4dos> exit
C:\4DOS>
Basic Commands
We'll begin the tour by demonstrating some of the most common,
and most familiar, commands. We'll also show you some of the
enhancements that we've added to those commands to make your
computing easier.
First, enter the single-character command ?. You'll see a
display like this:
c:\4dos> ?
? ALIAS ATTRIB BEEP ...
CD CDD CHCP CHDIR ...
CTTY DATE DEL DELAY ...
... ... ...
UNSET VER VERIFY VOL ...
The ? command displays a list of all the commands built into
your new command processor. You certainly don't have to
memorize them all -- we'll show you how to get help with any
command in a few moments. Nor are we going to demonstrate all
of these commands in this tour. If you want complete
information about a command, see the online help or