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Getting Ready

To perform the remaining activities in this blog, your DOS program files should be in the current directory, or a search path must be established to the directory containing the DOS command files. Assuming that you are using a hard drive system and your DOS file are located in the C:\DOS directory, you can type PATH=C:\DOS and press Enter from the DOS prompt to establish the search path. This automatically searches the specified directory for program files. Operation of the PATH command will be described in detail in Section 4 of this blog.

If you are using a floppy disk system, your DOS files should be located on the disk in drive A.
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