Learning by Doing: CISCO Certified Network ... - SCN Research

i. Here you can change which shortcut keys are allowed, sensitivity, etc.
There are some neat settings under the screen tab also. Lots of things to
play with and lots of things to do with DOS.
2. DOS prompt and directory file structure. The DOS prompt and DOS system can
be thought of similar to a filing cabinet. If you have three drives (C, D, and E)
then each one can be thought of as separate filing cabinets C, D, and E. Each of
those cabinets are then called the “root” directory of each cabinet. Each root
directory can contain many different “directories.” These directories can be
thought of as drawers in the cabinets. From there each directory can contain
many different “sub-directories” similar to folders. Each “sub-directory” can
contain other subdirectories and so on…at any point (root, directory, subdirectory,
etc) can contain computer files (thought of similar to documents…they
can be placed in a folder, drawer, etc). So lets take a peak and put this all into
perspective…
C:\
C:\Windows
C:\Windows\System
Root prompt
directory called “windows” of root “C”
sub-directory called “system” in directory
“windows” of root “C”
Let’s look at an example of navigation with DOS. Using the directory “tree”
structure shown on the next page (figure 6) we could write down the paths for
certain files. For example the complete path to the album.zip file would become:
C:\MY_Documents\My_Pictures\album.zip
See if you can give the complete path for the following files (This is not what
your computer will look like…just a make-believe one for this exercise):
autoexec.bat ______________________________________________________
letter.doc__________________________________________________________
winzip.exe ________________________________________________________
word.exe __________________________________________________________
command.com _____________________________________________________
9