User's Manual

■ How to change the default drive
■ How to start an application program.
Starting and Exiting MS-DOS
Remember, before you can run an MS-DOS
application program, MS-DOS itself must be running
in memory. Follow these steps to load MS-DOS:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Turn on your monitor and any peripherals,
the printer.
Turn on your Apex. Refer to Chapter 1 for
such as
complete instructions on turning on your system.
Insert your MS-DOS system diskette into the top
drive. Refer to Chapter 3 for a complete
description of inserting diskettes.
Respond to the Date and Time prompts, or press
Enter to skip through these prompts.
Now you see the MS-DOS prompt, which tells you
that MS-DOS is loaded and indicates the current
drive followed by a greater-than symbol:
A>
This prompt informs you that you can now enter
commands to instruct MS-DOS to perform tasks and
run application programs.
Using MS-DOS with Your Apex
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