ABSTRACT

Microsoft Windows is an increasingly popular operating environment. It serves to isolate the user from the necessity of mastering a complex set of commands in the DOS operating system. The difficulty with learning MS-DOS commands are

They are usually not intuitive.

There are a great number of commands. Many of them are used infrequently.

Many of the MS-DOS commands have additional parameters that must be learned and remembered.

Microsoft Windows provides a better environment, known as a Graphical User Interface, sometimes referred to as a GUI (pronounced gooie) interface. In dealing with a textual interface, for every computer application that you use you will have to remember the necessary command or commands required to invoke the application.