APPEND
Causes MS-DOS to look in other directories when editing a file or running a command.
APPEND Drive: \Path /X /E Path:on or off
Drive: The drive letter to be searched.
\Path The path to be searched.
/X :on or :off Extends the DOS search path for specified files when executing programs. Processes SEARCH FIRST, FIND FIRST and EXEC functions. The :ON and :OFF are new to version MS-DOS 5.0,
/Path :on or :off If path is already included for a program file, :on tells program to also search in appended directories. Default= :on. Note: The default value of = :on was added in MS-DOS 5.0 and above
/E Causes the appended path to be stored in the DOS environment and searched for there.
; Use ";" to separate multiple Drive:\path statements on one line.
EXAMPLES
Note: You can not use any paths on the same command line as /X & /E. The :ON and :OFF options are only available in MS-DOS 5.0 and later. Do not append within a Windows environment. The append command can be used on a network. Invalid drive specifications will not be detected until DOS attempts to use the search path to find specified files.
append - using append alone will display the current search path.
append c:\docs;c:\letters;c:\files - Sets the computer to look for files in the docs, letters and files directory, therefore when typing a command such as edit myfile.txt if the file is not present in the current directory would also look for the file in docs, letters and files.
Causes MS-DOS to look in other directories when editing a file or running a command.
APPEND Drive: \Path /X /E Path:on or off
Drive: The drive letter to be searched.
\Path The path to be searched.
/X :on or :off Extends the DOS search path for specified files when executing programs. Processes SEARCH FIRST, FIND FIRST and EXEC functions. The :ON and :OFF are new to version MS-DOS 5.0,
/Path :on or :off If path is already included for a program file, :on tells program to also search in appended directories. Default= :on. Note: The default value of = :on was added in MS-DOS 5.0 and above
/E Causes the appended path to be stored in the DOS environment and searched for there.
; Use ";" to separate multiple Drive:\path statements on one line.
EXAMPLES
Note: You can not use any paths on the same command line as /X & /E. The :ON and :OFF options are only available in MS-DOS 5.0 and later. Do not append within a Windows environment. The append command can be used on a network. Invalid drive specifications will not be detected until DOS attempts to use the search path to find specified files.
append - using append alone will display the current search path.
append c:\docs;c:\letters;c:\files - Sets the computer to look for files in the docs, letters and files directory, therefore when typing a command such as edit myfile.txt if the file is not present in the current directory would also look for the file in docs, letters and files.
| APPEND | ARP | ASSOC | AT | ATTRIB | BREAK | CACLS | CALL | CD |
| CHCP | CHDIR | CHKDSK | CHKNTFS | CLS | CMD | COLOR | COMMAND | COMP |
| COMPACT | CONTROL | CONVERT | COPY | DATE | DEBUG | DEL | DELTREE | DIR 2 |
| DIR ... | DISKCOMP | DISKCOPY | DOSKEY | ECHO | EDIT | EDLIN | ERASE | EXIT |
| EXPAND | FC | FDISK | FIND | FOR | FORMAT | FTP | GRAFTABL | HELP |
| IPCONFIG | LABEL | LOADFIX | MD | MEM | MKDIR | MODE | MORE | MOVE |
| MSCDEX | NBTSTAT | NET | NETSTAT | NLSFUNC | NSLOOKUP | PATH | PATHPING | PAUSE |
| PING | PROMPT | RD | REN | RENAME | RMDIR | ROUTE | SET | |
| SETVER | SHARE | SHUTDOWN | SORT | SUBST | TIME | TREE | TYPE | UNLOCK |
| VER | VERIFY | VOL | XCOPY |
