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Differences between internal and external DOS command?

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  1.  what are the 5 internal dos commands ???????????


  2. Differences between internal and external DOS command?

  3. Differences between internal and external DOS command? give me details

  4. Internal commands are stored in the cmd.exe command interpreter, ex. Dir
    External commands correspond to a .com or .cmd file, ex. Robocopy

    In MS-DOS there are two types of commands. An Internal command, which is a command embedded into the command.com file, and an external command, which is not embedded into command.com and therefore requires a separate file to be used.

    For example, if your computer does not have fdisk.exe and you try using the fdisk command, you would receive an error "Bad command or file name." Fdisk is an external command that will only work if fdisk.exe, or in some cases, fdisk.com, is present.

    However, as long as MS-DOS is running on your computer internal commands such as the cd command will always be available and does not require any other files to run.

    Computer Hope's MS-DOS page lists what commands are external and what are internal on each of the command pages. In addition, you can see our dictionary internal command page and/or external command page for a complete listing of each of the internal and external commands available.

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