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To use the HELP menu, follow these steps:
1. If you don’t have a hard disk, make sure your Working 3
(5 or Working (3 diskette is in drive A.
2. If necessary, type : and press
Enter
to log onto drive A.
3. At the MS-DOS command prompt, type and press
Enter.
4. The screen displays a menu of MS-DOS commands. Use
the cursor keys to highlight the command you want
information about and press
Enter.
5. If there is more than one screen of information about the
command you selected, you see the prompt at the
top of the screen. Press the
PgUp
key to display the rest of
the text.
6. To return to the HELP menu, press
E
SC
.
Press
E
SC
again to
exit the program.
To bypass the HELP menu and see information about one
command, follow these steps:
1. At the MS-DOS command prompt, type followed by
the name of the MS-DOS command you want information
about. Then press
Enter.
For example, to see help
information about the COPY command, type the following
and press
Enter:
2. If there is more than one screen of information about the
command you selected, you see the prompt at the
top of the screen. Press the
PgUp
key to display the rest of
the text.
3. Press
E
SC
to exit the HELP program.
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