Introducing PC-DOS and MC-DOS: A Guide for Beginning and Advanced Users

“An excelllent and appealingly practical reference book to Microsoft’s PC operating system. It’s the kind of book DOS users have been waiting for”

                                                                                                                                                                                                   PC Week (30 July 1985)

INTRODUCING PC-DOS AND MS-DOS will take you beyond the overwhelming manuals supplied with your computer, leading you from the first boot-up to advanced techniques. It will show you the power of DOS as a tool that even can be used in place of other software.

Writing in a straightforward, nontechnical style especially designed for “hands-on” use, the author takes you to the heart of the learning process by guiding you through actual DOS examples while you sit at your terminal. Beginning with basics, you will steadily increase your expertise by working on actual problems designed to highlight specific functions of PC- and MS-DOS. The author, from his experience in computer instruction, writing, and software design offers tips, techniques, and routines for such areas as:

- Getting up on your system

- Learning commands

- Working with batch and advanced files

- Organizing your system

- Building and automating menus

- Organizing a fixed-disk system with menus, help screens and tree-structures directories

- Working with multiple users

- Creating your own filters and data-base systems

- Communicating and file transferring

- Reassigning keys

- And more

This book will pay for itself many times over by showing you how to get the most out of your PC, PCjr, AT, XT, or any system that uses PC-DOS or MC-DOS. Now you can eliminate the need to buy expensive software by using functions that are supplies with PC- and MS-DOS. So, for anyone – from a home computer user to microcomputer lab manager – here’s a plainly written book that can show you how to know more and do more with DOS.

About the Author

Throughout his career in the computer field, Tom Sheldon has made it his business to provide state-of-the-art information in simple, forthright teaching techniques. Mr. Sheldon has written extensively on DOS systems, including numerous articles in well-known computer magazines and journals. He is currently president of a company that develops and markets, among other things, user-friendly software shells for computers. Mr. Sheldon makes his home in Santa Barbara.