Statistics for DOS Commands

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Hint	Command	% Correct
Change active folder	chdir	86%
Duplicate one or more files	copy	76%
Relocate one or more files	move	71%
Display contents of a folder	dir	62%
Create a folder	mkdir	62%
Clear the screen	cls	57%
Delete a folder	rmdir	57%
View and modify a file	edit	43%
Check the filesystem	chkdsk	33%
Erase and prepare a disk	format	33%
Display a file's contents	type	33%
System configuration file	config.sys	29%
Partition a disk	fdisk	29%
Create programs in BASIC	qbasic	29%
Organize data sequentially for performance	defrag	24%
List of commands to run at startup	autoexec.bat	19%
Delete a folder and all subfolders	deltree	19%
View and modify a file one line at a time	edlin	10%
Like above, but also checks for bad sectors	scandisk	10%
Duplicate an entire folder tree	xcopy	10%
Copy an entire disk to another disk	diskcopy	5%
DOS graphical interface	dosshell	5%
Optimize and reduce memory usage	memmaker	5%
Diagnostics utility	msd	5%