freeing up space

not sure if this is ok to do in this area but i have a problem. im in dos and am trying to free up space to download windows 95 but because i only have a prompt on screen i am not sure how to do it. can anyone help? thank you in advance

To free up space in DOS... Copy stuff you want to some convenient storage media (CDRW drive, tape drive, floppy...) before deleting it. Put the line set dircmd=/a /p in AUTOEXEC.BAT so your dir command shows all files and displays them a page at a time, and use ATTRIB command to clear Readonly, System, and Hidden bits from superfluous files (like in the %temp% directory) before deleting them. Check the %temp% directory (should be c:\temp or c:\windows\temp, but some setups actually use the c:\dos directory...) and delete all TMP files. Empty any 'delete catcher' or 'recycle bin' directories.

Downloading Win95? If you're trying to get a pirate copy of an OS, give it up and get Linux...

THANK YOU MALIKTOUS FOR YOUR QUIICK REPLY, BUT I AM SO STUPID WHEN IT COMES TO COMPUTERS. AND AM STILL HAVING THE PROBLEM. I DIDNT MAKE A BACK UP CAUSE THERE ISNT ANYTHING IN THERE NEED. OK ON C: I PUT IN ATTRIB ANDIT SHOWS STUFF LIKE SETUPLOG.TXT THEN NEXT TO IT IT SAYS C:\SETUPLOG.TEXT BUT IF I PUT THAT IN THE C PROMP SPACE IT SAYS BAD COMMAND. SO THERE I AM, IM SURE YOUR THINKING OH GOODNESS WHAT A DIP BUT IM REALLY NOT. JUST KIND OF PUTER ILLITERATE.  AND NO IM NOT GETTING A PIRATE COPY, I BOUGHT THE DISC FROM A COMPUTER STORE.   THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP.

Please fix the sticky shift key or disable the caps lock, that's just annoying...

What size hard drive is this? If you have a HD over 2 GB, you should have Win95 OSR2 or later, and use the option for 'Large' hard drives when you repartition so you get FAT32 partitions.

You use attrib like this:
attrib -r -h -s setuplog.txt

Then you can use
type setuplog.txt /p

to view the file, or you can delete it, or whatever else you want to do with it. DIR /a just lets you see all the files regardless of whether they are hidden or system flagged.

Entering a command like
attrib /?
will cause it to display a set of instructions. If you have a copy of DOS 6.22 with the QBASIC and HELP files, you have a better reference than the '/?' option.