User Guide

80 Virtual PC 4.0 for Windows User Guide
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Viewing the contents of a directory in wide format
1 Type the following at the command prompt:
dir /w
The directory list displays with the filenames listed in wide
format. Only filenames are listed. No information about file size
or date and time of creation appears.
If the directory contains more files than will fit on one screen, you
can combine the /p and /w switches as follows:
dir /w /p
Using wildcard commands
A wildcard command allows you to include all the files you specify to
be affected by the command. You can include multiple wildcards in a
command. For example, the following command lists all the files
from the current directory:
dir *.*
All the files in the current directory are displayed.
Changing drives
PC-DOS allows you to access other drives. Drive A is your floppy disk
drive. Drives C and D represent your internal hard drives, and drive E
represents your CD-ROM drive. There may be other drives, and each
one is assigned a letter. Each drive can contain files you can access and
view.
1 To change to drive A, enter:
a:
The command prompt changes to:
A:\
If there is no floppy disk image mounted in drive A, this message
should appear:
Not ready reading drive A Abort, Retry, Fail?
2
Mount a floppy disk image into drive A and then type:
r
for Retry.