Class Exercise  A little Bit of DOS

This exercise should be carried out after reading the Dos Tutorial

You need a blank floppy disk to carry out this exercise. Open up a command prompt window.

1. At the command prompt, type in and execute the command to change from your current drive to your floppy drive

2. Create a folder called docs on your floppy.

3. Create another folder called pics on your floppy

4. Open up notepad, type in your name and save the text file as myName to the a:\

5. At the command prompt, type in and execute the command to list the files and folders in the root directory of your floppy.  What extension has been given to your file  myName?

6. Type in and execute the command to move your file myName to the docs folder

7. Type and execute the command to list the files in the docs folder

8. Change folders to the docs folder.  

9. List the files in the docs folder

10. Change to the floppy root directory 

11. Delete the folder called pics

12. Check you have deleted the pics folder by listing the folder contents

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