Special Edition Using MS-DOS® 6.22, Third Edition

Chapter 10. Working with System Information

In this chapter

• Changing the Date and Time

• Displaying the Version Using the VER Command

• Setting the Version Using the SETVER Command

• Displaying Memory Statistics

• Loading a Secondary Command Processor

Changing the Date and Time

In Chapter 5, ”Understanding Files and Directories,” you learned a bit about how DOS stores files using a directory. This directory maintains critical information about each file on your disk, including the filename, its attributes, its size, and where it is stored on the disk. It also contains date and time information that indicates when the file was last updated. This information is often referred to as a date and time stamp. This stamp is updated from the system date and time whenever ...