Batch File Programming

Book Details :

Author: Michael E. Valdez, Ph.D. 

Publisher: Unknown (October 23, 2002) 

ISBN: None

Pages: 25 

Language: English

The DOS command line structure is simple. Using the commands is what is complex. This simplicity of the command structure is a result of many limitations of the system. The DOS command use a single line. It executes when you press Enter key.

A command has three parts : a command name, the parameters, and the switches. Some people like to call the parameters and the switches by the generic name of command tail. Some commands call a program. The tail pass to the program. The command name tells DOS what you want the computer to do. It is interesting you read this sentence again. You do not tell the computer what to do. You tell DOS to tell the computer what you want it to do. The difference is small, but important. Programming the computer, you tell it what to do. You talk directly to the computer. When you write a command line, you talk to DOS, and DOS talks to the computer.

In the following book, will be explained more fully about DOS programming and how to write the command line.