Statistics for DOS Commands

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Hint	Command	% Correct
Change active folder	chdir	79%
Duplicate one or more files	copy	75%
Relocate one or more files	move	67%
Create a folder	mkdir	63%
Display contents of a folder	dir	58%
Delete a folder	rmdir	58%
Clear the screen	cls	54%
View and modify a file	edit	42%
Check the filesystem	chkdsk	29%
Erase and prepare a disk	format	29%
Display a file's contents	type	29%
System configuration file	config.sys	25%
Partition a disk	fdisk	25%
Create programs in BASIC	qbasic	25%
Organize data sequentially for performance	defrag	21%
Delete a folder and all subfolders	deltree	21%
List of commands to run at startup	autoexec.bat	17%
View and modify a file one line at a time	edlin	8%
Like above, but also checks for bad sectors	scandisk	8%
Duplicate an entire folder tree	xcopy	8%
Copy an entire disk to another disk	diskcopy	4%
DOS graphical interface	dosshell	4%
Optimize and reduce memory usage	memmaker	4%
Diagnostics utility	msd	4%