Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Step by Step is designed for use as a learning and reference resource by home and business users of Microsoft Office programs who want to use PowerPoint to create and present slide presentations and printed materials. The content of the book is designed to be useful for people who have previously used earlier ver. In the 1980s or early 1990s, the operating system that shipped with most PCs was a version of the Disk Operating System (DOS) created by Microsoft: MS-DOS.
DOS commands are the commands available in MS-DOS that are used to interact with the operating system and other command line based software.
Unlike in Windows, DOS commands are the primary way in which you use the operating system. Windows and other modern OSs use a graphics-based system designed for touch or a mouse.
DOS Commands in Windows: If you use Windows (like Windows 10, 8, 7, etc.) then you have no need for DOS commands because you don't have MS-DOS. The commands in Windows are available from the Command Prompt and are called Command Prompt commands or CMD commands, but they are not DOS commands.
Instead, check out our List of Windows CMD Commands for all of the command-line options you have available to you in Windows. We also have a command comparison table to show which commands are available in different Microsoft operating systems.
Below is a complete list of MS-DOS commands, commonly referred to as just DOS commands, available as of MS-DOS 6.22:
If you're interested, we also keep Windows-specific lists, which you can find in these Windows 8 commands, Windows 7 commands, Windows Vista commands, and Windows XP commands documents.