Basics of the MKS Toolkit - Mks.com

General Purpose Tools
order... a definite improvement. lc displays the names in alphabetical
order too, but uses a much more compact format. For example,
typical output from lc looks like this:
Directories:
cc bin etc mks text
Files:
csrb.cpy filelist phones.com temp.t
Read-Only:
ibmbio.com ibmdos.com
Notice how directories are separated from files, and how files with
special characteristics are separated from normal files.
As you can see, the default output from lc is much easier to read than
the default output from dir. Since lc shows five names per line, it
can display five times the number of names on your screen. You’ll be
surprised at how quickly you will come to appreciate the
convenience of lc over dir: the information you most commonly
want is provided in a greatly improved format.
lc can also list the contents of more than one directory at a time. For
example,
lc dir1 dir2
Simple File Manipulation
cp
lists the contents of the two given directories, one after the other. Try
this command on a pair of directories to see what format is displayed.
Also, try the same sort of thing with ls.
As you’ll see, lc is not the only MKS Toolkit command that improves
on an existing Windows command. Many of our commands are
easier to use and more powerful than the commands you are used to.
cp is similar, though superior, to the standard copy command. cp
copies one or more files to a new location. For example,
cp file1 file2
copies the contents of file1 into file2 , just as copy does. In addition, cp
lets you enter
cp file1 file2 file3... directory
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