When the menu is displayed, you see this prompt at the bottom of the screen: Select command name, Enter to display command, Esc to Exit

Use the cursor keys to select a command name. (You can only select one command name at a time from the menu.) When the correct command is highlighted, press Enter. The help screen for the specified command is dis- played.

If there is more than one page of text, you see the prompt PgUp on the top of the screen. Press Page Up (or Pg Up) to display the rest of the text. After reading the help information, press Esc to return to the menu.

If you type HELP and one or more command names on the command line, the help information for the first command is displayed. Press ESC to see the help information for the next command. When you press ESC after viewing the information for the last command, MS-DOS returns to the system prompt.

Caution

The help information is stored in the HELP.TXT file. If you copy HELP.COM to another diskette or to your hard disk, you must also copy HELP.TXT to the same disk. If they are not in the same path, you can use the APPEND command to locate HELP.TXT.

Examples

To see help information for the COPY command, type the following command and press Enter:

HELP COPY

To see help information for the DISKCOPY and FORMAT commands, type the following command line and press Enter:

HELP DISKCOPY FORMATTo see the help menu, type HELP only and press Enter.

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