FAT16 (File Allocation Table 16 bit)
FDISK
Yes, if it is a DOS program.
FAT16
There is no size limit either way for a COM or command file. Typically they were used for DOS programs that were part of the operating system.
Any file system can be used by a floppy disk, as long as the minimum partition size of the file system does not exceed the capacity of the floppy. FAT12 is the most common on Windows / MS-DOS computers. AFS was common on earlier Macs. ext was used among many Linux users. Floppy disks can use a variety of file systems. On MS-DOS and Windows computers, the primary file system for floppies is FAT12. On older Macs, the file system was HFS or MFS. Linux computers sometimes use ext.
The copy command in MS-DOS is used to duplicate files from one location to another within the file system. It allows users to specify the source file and the destination, enabling efficient file management. Additionally, the command can be used to combine multiple files into one, such as merging text files. Overall, it serves as a fundamental tool for file manipulation in the MS-DOS environment.
DOS is not used at any time in any modern operating system.
AUTOEXE.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. The two files that are used by DOS to configure a computer are AUTOEXE.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. In general, the CONFIG.SYS file sets up the operating system environment, and the AUTOEXE.BAT file sets up the user environment
To copy files to RAM in MS-DOS, you have to use the COPY function after converting the file to a system file with the *.sys extension.
dos operating system
Windows 3.1 would have been installed on top of a standalone version of MS-DOS. All standalone versions of MS-DOS used FAT12 or FAT16. It is possible to run Windows 3.1 on top of later versions of MS-DOS with a FAT32 file system, but this would have been extremely uncommon.
In DOS, the "" symbol signifies a comment in a batch file, which means that any text following the "" symbol on a line is ignored by the system when the batch file is executed.