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Track A circular region on a diskette, which is divided into sectors. Each side of a 1.44MB or 720KB diskette has 80 concentric tracks. Each side of a 360KB 5 '/,-inch diskette has 40. On a hard disk, tracks are called cylinders. Utility program A type of application program designed to perform housekeeping chores, such as copying files, creating directories, and so on. HELP and MENU are examples of utility programs. VGA Video Graphics Array. A type of high-resolution display adapter that can display monochrome text at up to 720x400 resolution, 16-color graphics at 640x480 resolution, or 256-color graphics at 320x200 resolution. Volume label A name (up to eleven characters in length) you can assign to a diskette or hard disk. To add or change a volume label for a diskette or hard disk that has already been formatted, use the MS-DOS LABEL command. Wildcard character A character that represents an unknown character or group of characters. MS-DOS recognizes two wildcard characters: * and ?. The asterisk represents a group of characters, and the question mark represents a single character. Write To record data on a disk.

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Track
A circular region on a diskette, which is divided into sectors.
Each side of
a
1.44MB or 720KB diskette has 80 concentric
tracks. Each side of
a
360KB 5
‘/,-inch
diskette has 40. On a
hard disk, tracks are called cylinders.
Utility program
A type of application program designed to perform
housekeeping chores, such as copying files, creating directories,
and so on. HELP and MENU are examples of utility programs.
VGA
Video Graphics Array. A type of high-resolution display adapter
that can display monochrome text at up to 720x400 resolution,
16-color graphics at 640x480 resolution, or 256-color graphics
at 320x200 resolution.
Volume label
A name (up to eleven characters in length) you can assign to a
diskette or hard disk. To add or change a volume label for a
diskette or hard disk that has already been formatted, use the
MS-DOS
LABEL command.
Wildcard character
A character that represents an unknown character or group of
characters. MS-DOS recognizes two wildcard characters: * and
?. The asterisk represents a group of characters, and the
question mark represents a single character.
Write
To record data on a disk.