April 2005, Issue 177 Test Your EQ

Answer 4—The five commands built into the console command processor (CCP) are: 

· DIR—List the file names in the directory

· ERA—Erase (delete) a file

· REN—Rename a file

· SAVE—Save the contents of memory to a file

· TYPE—Type (display) the contents of a file to the console 

The 10 standard transient commands (executable files loaded from disk) are: 

· ASM—8080 assembler

· DDT—A debugger

· DUMP—Display the contents of a file in hex

· ED—A line-oriented text editor

· LOAD—Convert a file from Intel hex to binary

· MOVCPM—System reconfiguration tool

· PIP—Data transfer utility

· STAT—System status and device assignment

· SUBMIT—Execute a batch of commands from a file

· SYSGEN—Create a new CP/M boot disk 

Rhetorical question: Do you know what all of the commands and utilities in Windows XP are?

Contributor: David Tweed