Most used DOS commands on the job?

WINIPCFG / IPCONFIG
PING -T or PING -A
TRACERT

I'd have to think a bit more & I haven't used DOS day-to-day lately.

What I think is meant by this isn't just any command line entry [tracert...], but those that would have been listed in the DOS, Commands folders: or most likely have copme with SOME version of dos, or is an internal command. I have liked:

debug
xcopy
sys
format
attrib

early days was
copy con autoexec.bat|config.sys
anybody else remember when this was the BEST way. Hint: DOS 3.1x <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0">

This is easy...

ipconfig
ping
net send
format
fdisk

scanreg /fix
scanreg /restore
fdisk /mbr
format c: /u
scandisk
dir \????????.???/s (I hate finding out after I've spent some time on a computer to find out the file/driver I needed isn't there.)
ping
diskcopy
sys c:
exit

attrib /s -r +a

ipconfig
netstat
telnet
ping
tracert

(OK, so it's the Win2K Command Console, but its sort of DOS)

How about this..........

attrib -ugly -nasty -bad attitude

If Drew Carey were in IT.....

1. Ping (Me and the user's use it)
2. Winipcfg (user's that I can't find)

Rest are run from the run box

3. msconfig (to fix what the user's mess up)
4. regedit (to hunt viruses and other probs)
5. sysedit (for the win95 clients)

Well this is a question to some of the responses. what do these commands do?
net send
net use

I would say my top 5 commands are:
fdisk
format /s
dir
cd
copy

Quote:

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Originally posted by Todo:
<STRONG>Well this is a question to some of the responses. what do these commands do?
net send
net use
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net send sends a message to other users on the network. It can be used to send warnings such as outages, or it can be used to chat with people.

net use maps a network resource, such as a file share or printer, to a local device, such as a drive letter or LPT port. For instance, you can map //fileserver/files/ to X:, or //printserver/laserjet/ to LPT2

NEIther of which are DOS commands.

I especially like regedit & sysedit; which are windows commands.

It might be useful if this thread could be split to the INTernal commands that we know
ver; copy; dir; against the EXTernal ones; Xcopy; attrib, edit, edlin, against other command line usages. <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">

fdisk
format
cd
md
copy

[list=1][*]winipcfg / ipconfig[*]ping - T[*]scanreg /fix[*]scanreg /restore[*]fdisk /mbr[*]format c: /u/s[*]attrib /s -r +a[/list=a]

ohhh thats right only five, forgot.... <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

Question:
What is the exact syntax to extract a cab file from the 98CD.
I know I can use the file checker utility in Win98, I but I'd rather use DOS Prompt.

I get an error message on boot that says I don't have Highmem.sys loaded, and I want to extract it from the cab files. I'm using the A and Y switches but am unable to extract???

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