Chapters 15 and 16 cover operating systems. You wouldn\'t be able to use a devic
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Question
Chapters 15 and 16 cover operating systems. You wouldn't be able to use a device to even get to this discussion board
without them. Examples are MS-DOS, Windows, Android and iOS. Starting on page 486 there is a section talking about the
user interface and command execution services. Let's research this in more detail.
Choose an operating system with a GUI and describe three different commands that it supports. Then describe another way to complete the same command in a command line interface. For instance in Windows, you can use your mouse to drag a file from one folder to another. How can you move this same file with a command line interface?
Explanation / Answer
The chosen Operating System is Microsoft Windows-
First Command- Copying files from one folder to another-
Using mouse- Simple select the file in the source folder and then right click over it and copy it. Then go the destination folder and right click in it and paste the copied file.
Using command line interface- xcopy path to the file in the source folder path to the destination folder.
Second Command- Opening a file
Using mouse- Go the folder containing the desired file then double left click over the file to open it.
Using command line interface- Go the folder containing the desired file using command cd path to the folder. Then types start filename and then the file will open up.
Third Command- Zip a folder.
Using mouse- Select the folder and then right click over it and then using some zipping software like winrar you can compress it.
Using Command line interface- Use command zip -r zipped_File_Name.zip original_File_name.