105 homework

[im1cardfan]

I am new so I don't know if this is the right place to post this ? but here goes. What is the name of the single directory when a floppy disk or logical drive is first formatted?

thx in advance

[patio]

Root.

[gamerx365]

yes but i dont understand what this has to do with DOS. welcome to the forums by the way.

[Deerpark]

Most of the threads posted on the DOS board have absolutely nothing to do with DOS... 
I.e. Batch scripting and anything involving the command prompt.

[gamerx365]

all that stuff isn't related to DOS?

[Deerpark]

Not really. Win ME was the last version of Windows built on top of DOS, all later version is all Windows.

[gamerx365]

so why is CMD and Batch considered DOS?

[WillyW]

so why is CMD and Batch considered DOS?

By whom?     

[gamerx365]

so why is CMD and Batch considered DOS?

By whom?     

hmmm i dunno but thats pretty much all thats discussed here...

[WillyW]

so why is CMD and Batch considered DOS?

By whom?     

hmmm i dunno but thats pretty much all thats discussed here...

Bingo!    You're right there.

That is because so many people used WinXP as compared to MS-DOS.  Most of the posters asking questions are using WinXP.

Many of them have probably never even used good ol' MS-DOS.   What they are doing is calling the command line interface within XP, "Dos".    The commands are almost the same.
It has been repeated so much that it is becoming the norm, even though it is incorrect.

Now along comes you, and assume - reasonably so -  that what you are seeing is correct.     
What is happening, is that those that hang out here and try to answer questions have learned..... learned that the poster is probably really not using MS-DOS at all, but is probably using the command line in WinXP.... and, since CH is all about trying to provide some help,  they interpret and proceed to try to offer whatever help they can.
Answering the poster's question with some help is more important and friendlier than a lecture.   

Technically,  under WinXP I suppose it should be referred to as "the command line interface".      But we could hope for that until we are blue in the face, and I'll be that it will still be called "Dos".   

Here ya go -  want to see what appeared on the screen when you typed    help
at the prompt under DOS 6.22?
http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/index.htm
and those are click-able links. 
Enjoy!

[gamerx365]

hmm I see what you mean. So basically since not so many people have been using DOS, they just call CMD DOS because they are similar. hmm. Alot of those commands look like CMD but I also see a bunch in there that i dont know. but surely this is way more off topic than other posts in this board right? I mean a floppy disk isn't very closely related to DOS or CMD.

[WillyW]

hmm I see what you mean. So basically since not so many people have been using DOS, they just call CMD DOS because they are similar.

I think so.

hmm. Alot of those commands look like CMD but I also see a bunch in there that i dont know. but surely this is way more off topic than other posts in this board right? I mean a floppy disk isn't very closely related to DOS or CMD.

?  ?
Are you referring to the original poster's first question?

If so,   re-read it.     He didn't ask about a floppy disk.   

And he wasn't sure where to ask it.    This is not an unreasonable place to ask it.
Since the question had a simple answer,   in the spirit of providing help,  it looks to me like patio simply provided the answer.     
At that point,    it was done.

[patio]

Meanwhile he's been abducted...

[gamerx365]

hmm. Alot of those commands look like CMD but I also see a bunch in there that i dont know. but surely this is way more off topic than other posts in this board right? I mean a floppy disk isn't very closely related to DOS or CMD.

?  ?
Are you referring to the original poster's first question?

If so,   re-read it.     He didn't ask about a floppy disk.   

And he wasn't sure where to ask it.    This is not an unreasonable place to ask it.
Since the question had a simple answer,   in the spirit of providing help,  it looks to me like patio simply provided the answer.    
At that point,    it was done.

yeah well the root of a formatted floppy, basically it was a question about a floppy disk. anyway I was just saying that it doesnt belong here. yeah i can imagine not knowing where to post so Ill let it slide this time lol.