DOS Commands [Alphabet E]

E

External – PC DOS 6.1 and above

Starts PC DOS editor, which creates and changes ASCII files.

E [/Q] [/B] [/S] [/D] [/I] [/C] [/A] [/DM] [/80 |/132] [d:][path][filespec]
  [=filespec] ['command']

  /Q        Turns off display of "Loading .." message.
  /B        Displays files in browse (read-only) mode.
  /S        Uses EMS (or hardfile if no EMS is available) to edit files
            too large for conventional memory.
  /D        Forces file to be loaded from disk.
  /I        Edits STACKER.INI file.
  /C        Edits CONFIG.SYS file.
  /A        Edits AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
  /DM       Disables Mouse.
  /80       Enables 80 column, 16 color text video (CGA/EGA/MCGA/VGA/SVGA/XGA).
  /132      Enables 132 column, 16 color text video (XGA).
 [d:][path][filespec]  Specifies drive, directory, and file to edit.
  =         Is shorthand for "same path as last specified" at the DOS
            prompt, or "same as current file's" at the editor commandline.
            For example, E \PAS\LANG\FOO.PAS =FOO.BAK will load the two
            files FOO.PAS and FOO.BAK, both from the directory \PAS\LANG.
 'command'  Specifies a startup command.  For example, E \FOO.PAS 'ALL /IF'
            will load the file FOO.PAS and then execute the ALL command
            on this file.

Switches may be preset in the E environment variable.

E is only included with PC DOS versions and replaces the MS-DOS editor EDIT.

ECHO

Internal – DOS 2.0 and above

Displays messages, or turns command-echoing on or off.

  ECHO [ON | OFF]
  ECHO [message]

Type ECHO without parameters to display the current echo setting.

EDIT

External – MS-DOS 5.0 and above

Starts the MS-DOS editor, which creates and changes ASCII files.

EDIT [[drive:][path]filename] [/B] [/G] [/H] [/NOHI]

  [drive:][path]filename  Specifies the ASCII file to edit.
  /B          Allows use of a monochrome monitor with a color graphics card.
  /G          Provides the fastest update of a CGA screen.
  /H          Displays the maximum number of lines possible for your hardware.
  /NOHI       Allows the use of a monitor without high-intensity support.

PC DOS 6.1 and later use the E editor.

EDLIN

External – DOS 0.2 and above

Line-oriented text editor.

EDLIN [:][path]filename [/B]

  /B   Ignores end-of-file (CTRL+Z) characters.

EDLIN originated as an external command in QDOS.

EJECT

External – PC DOS 5.02 and above

Ejects the media from a drive.

EJECT [drive:]

EJECT is only included with PC DOS versions.

EMM386

External – DOS 5.0 and above

Turns on or off EMM386 expanded memory support.

EMM386 [ON | OFF | AUTO] [W=ON | W=OFF]

  ON | OFF | AUTO      Activates or suspends EMM386.EXE device driver,
                       or places it in auto mode.
  W=ON | OFF           Turns on or off Weitek coprocessor support.

EMM386.EXE must be loaded as a device driver in CONFIG.SYS in order to use this command.

EXE2BIN

External – DOS 1.0 and above

Converts .EXE (executable) files to binary format.

EXE2BIN [drive1:][path1]input-file [[drive2:][path2]output-file]  input-file   Specifies the .EXE file to be converted.
  output-file  Specifies the binary file to be created.

EXIT

Internal – DOS 2.0 and above

Quits the COMMAND.COM program (command interpreter).

EXIT

 

Source: Wikipedia

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