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DOS is a Disk operating system. Booting is the first program that runs when your computer is turned on. DOS is text based. To communicate with DOS the screen has a prompt where you enter a command. Case insensitive means that it doesn't matter how you enter the command it will take it anyway ex:tEsT.DOC. Useful things to know about DOS
Set path= makes DOS look in certain places
?= a file with any number
*= wild card
.= look in current directory
Useful DOS commands.
A: change current directory path to floppy disk
C: hard disk drive
DIR: current directory
MD: new directory
CD: change directory
COPY: copy
Del: Delete

DOS organizes disks by a file that has a directory and disk drive structure.
Three ways files are named 1-8 letter name, a period, 3 letter extension.
DOS directories are named by foot directories which have subdirectories.