welcome back to the adventure this is Adam and today we're continuing with the
DOS Shell starting with the file menu appear at the top there are several
items here ones that are gray in color are not available right now like the
print command is great because they do not have a file selected that can be
printed the items that have an ellipse next to them like the run command will
prompt for additional information before the command is executed from the top we
have the open command which allows you to open a file if the file is associated
with the program the program will run and then open the file selected next we
have the run command like in modern windows operating systems runs used to
open a program like T to the arcade game for example then we have the print
command which will print the context of an ASCII file like a text file then we
have associate associate lets you pick a program to open all files of the same
extension like the edit program by default it's set to open up all dot txt
files opposed to opening edit and then browsing to open and then selecting a
text file from the list the search like with modern windows systems will search
the disk or current directory for a file or extension you specify the results
including the dr path file and file name will be displayed in its own window
view file contents will open a file within das shell and show us content
this works with both a ski and binary files
next on the file menu we have our file management command move copy delete
rename change attributes and create directory they work the same as their
command prompt counterparts lastly we have select and deselect all for use
with the file list in the right hand paint lastly we have the exit commands
to close the das shell and return to the command prompt next we have the file
menu starting with confirmation this lets you choose what actions you would
like the confirmation prompts for like deleting or replacing files then we have
the file display option these are for how you would like the files to be
sorted like by size or extension and if you would like to have system or hidden
files displayed select across directories lets you select files in
more than one directory to execute a command on for example we may want to
delete files in both the data and apps directories with this option activated
we can select all the files we want to delete then select the delete command
from the file menu one show information is like the properties applet in a
modern windows system details on the file like name size attribute and
location will be displayed
enable tasks Walker is like an early task manager you can have more than one
program open and switch between them we'll go into this more in a later video
display allows you to switch between the text and graphical modes for das shell
and change the number of lines that can be displayed on the screen at one time
this works similar to the mode command
lastly colors lets you choose between eight predefined color schemes for the
DA shell
now for the view menu these are various layout options for the boss shell you
can have the single file list like we have currently selected there's the
double file list especially useful if you're deleting from multiple
directories then we have the program file list or just the programs list
which is this area sounds down and it says name and then we have the help menu
which we talked about briefly in the previous episode there are a number of
very specific articles on features of the boss shell that gives you more
details on each one that concludes our exploration of the das shell thanks for
stopping by see you next video