Hi John, When DOS was new it looked a lot like CP/M. After a couple of revisions it looked more like Unix. The most familiar things you will find are related to the fact that the file system is hierarchical like DOS, so you have the CD command to change directories, MKDIR and RMDIR to make and remove them, and commands like CP and MV to copy or move files, and LS to show the contents of directories, much like DIR with lots of options or switches. DOS borrowed the concept of I/O redirection and connecting filters together with a pipeline from Unix, so those features are native to Linux and are used a lot. DOS allows the creation of batch files, and in Linux those are called "scripts" and are also very popular. DOS gets its 'personality' from "command.com" which can be enhanced by other shells such as "4dos" for instance, and in Linux the preferred shell is "bash" but there are a half dozen others one might install instead. I am sure there are other similarities I am overlooking, but those are the first ones to occur to me. Chuck On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > Hi it's me again the linux newby. hehehe. > I'd like to know if some of the dos commands we use to use and sometimes still do, apply to linux in some way if at all. and if so, how and where? > I know it appears to be a dumb question but remember, I've never used it before so I'm well, um. flying blind as it were. Parden the pun. I'd appreciate any help on this.. thanks for putting up with me. > Shaun > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Crescent (49% of Full)
