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| | DOS TUTORIAL : THE BASICS |
 | | DOS interprets and translates the software you have on your computer. | | | DOS allows you to store information on your computer. | | | DOS controls the flow of information between you and the computer (translator). |
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http://www.glue.umd.edu/~nsw/ench250/dostutor.htm
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| | MS-DOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Beginning with version 4.0, MSDOS included a file manager program with a quasi-graphical user interface (the DOS Shell) that featured menus, split windows, and program shortcuts using character mode graphics that were a primitive imitation of the Mac OS and Windows. | | | It was the most widely used member of the DOS family of operating systems. | | | Whereas NT based versions of Windows ran independently of DOS but included much of the old code such that DOS could run in an virtual machines under the new OS. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
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| | MS-DOS Commands |
| | As long as computers have a need to manipulate hardware and software, and until such time as an adequate replacement is developed, we will have a need for this operating system and a knowledge of its command set. | | | Displays the version table and sets the version of DOS that is reported to programs. | | | DOS will search the specified path(s) if the file is not found in the current path. |
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http://www.dewassoc.com/support/msdos/dos_commands.htm
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| | Encyclopedia4U - MS-DOS - Encyclopedia Article |
| | Many programs created their own graphical interface, such as Microsoft Word for DOS, XTree, and the Norton Shell. | | | Prior to Windows '95, Windows was not a full operating system, but rather a shell that still required DOS to run. | | | For Microsoft's development from its origin as a specialist programming language supplier in the 1970s to its eventual status as the dominant firm in the computer industry, DOS was the key product. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/m/ms-dos.html
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| | Define MS-DOS - a Whatis.com definition |
| | Most users of either DOS system simply referred to their system as Disk Operating System. | | | It was essentially the same operating system that Bill Gates's young company developed for IBM as Personal Computer - Disk Operating System (PC-DOS). | | | Today, Windows operating systems continue to support DOS (or a DOS-like user interface) for special purposes by emulating the operating system. |
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http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci212605,00.html
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| | Many Systems on a PowerBook: DOS |
| | It had enhanced memory management that allowed parts of DOS, device drivers and TSRs to be moved out of conventional memory on systems with an Intel 286 or later processors and extended or expanded memory. | | | It had better memory management features (parts of DOS could be loaded in the high memory area, and certain device drivers/TSRs could run in unused parts of the upper memory between 640K and 1M). | | | Novell DOS also had disk doubling compression, a disk cache, utilities for defragmenting and undeleting, and so on. |
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http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/vpc/dos.html
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| | MS-DOS Anti-virus Tools |
| | The AAVIRUS program checks the integrity of the DOS bootstrap system on a bootable disk against a checksum file created by the program at installation. | | | EARLY Bird will scan program files for OUT instructions or occurrences of the BIOS or DOS disk interrupts in an attempt to detect Trojan code (download file early.zip). | | | If the recorded file sizes or any of the incremental or cumulative CRC comparisons do no match, CHECKUP alerts users that the target files have been modified (download file chkup39.zip). |
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http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/ToolsDOSVirus.html
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| | r_harvey - Exploring MS-DOS |
| | DOS does not inform programs that they have been paused, or that they are about to be involuntarily terminated. | | | DOS reuses directory entries as files are created, deleted and renamed, so files on the disk are rarely sorted, and their order in the directory listing can change. | | | Since DOS allocates subdirectory entries on an as-needed basis, reusing deleted directory entries, some new files may be excluded from the Filer list when it exceeds 100 files, even though alphabetically they come before the last entry that made it into the listing. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey/doc_dos.htm
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| | MS-DOS Kermit |
| | MS-DOS Kermit runs directly under DOS 2.0 and later and under Microsoft Windows 3.11 or earlier. | | | For convenience, the source code for the IBM PC version of MS-DOS Kermit is also available in a ZIP file: | | | If you will be downloading MS-DOS Kermit, please also order the book -- it will enable you to get the most out of the software, and book sales help to support the self-funding Kermit project. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html
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| | A Short History of MS-DOS |
| | Known variously as Seattle Computer 86-DOS, IBM Personal Computer DOS, and Zenith Z-DOS, MS-DOS was developed by Seattle Computer Products for its 8086-based computer system. | | | Microsoft has been continuously improving the DOS, providing version 1.24 to IBM (as IBM's version 1.1) with MS-DOS version 1.25 as the general release to all MS-DOS customers in March 1982. | | | In July 1981, Microsoft bought all rights to the DOS from Seattle Computer, and the name MS-DOS was adopted. |
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http://www.patersontech.com/Dos/Byte/History.html
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| | An Inside Look at MS-DOS |
| | This is the primary reason why MS-DOS disks do not ordinarily use any form of sector interleaving: a well-written I/O system will be able to transfer consecutive disk sectors if told to do it in a single request. | | | The number is determined by a configuration file when the DOS is loaded. | | | This is because the DOS has no notion of a sequential file: every disk transfer has an explicitly specified record position and record size. |
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http://www.patersontech.com/Dos/Byte/InsideDos.htm
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| | MS-DOS - Wikipedia |
| | Bootdisk.com - Bootdisketten für MS-DOS, MS Windows, Linux | | | Dies führte dazu, dass MS-DOS und andere DOS zur jeweiligen Höchstgrenzen-Kompatibilität zu große Datenträger ausschließlich partitioniert verwenden konnten. | | | Die inzwischen veralteten und vom Markt genommenen Windows 1.0 sowie die nachfolgenden Versionen bis 3.11, und Windows-95, -98, -98SE sowie -ME waren von DOS abhängig. |
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
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| | DOS the Easy Way Guide to MS-DOS |
| | The book DOS the Easy Way is now available for download as a text file. | | | The EasyDOS book review section provides information about technical books that are related to the internet, DOS, Windows, or computer programming. | | | The EasyDOS Index provides detailed information about all DOS commands and examples of their use. |
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http://www.easydos.com
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| | Merlyn - MS-DOS Batch Introduction - J R Stockton |
| | Microsoft DOS exists in versions 1.0 to 6.22, and is simulated within versions of Microsoft Windows (as MS-DOS versions 7 or higher); I will assume those here (I have in use Amstrad DOS 3.30, MS-DOS 6.20, and Windows 98). | | | In traditional DOS systems, directory entries are 32 bytes; that holds the SFN, location, size, date, and attributes. | | | There are other, rarer, implementations of DOS - some are similar, some are substantially enhanced (IBM PC-DOS, Caldera DOS, 4DOS, etc.). |
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http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/batintro.htm
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| | The Secret Guide to Computers - Ms Dos |
| | DOS W and DOS XP often come on a CD-ROM disk (as part of Windows) instead of floppy disks. | | | DOS W DOS W is part of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, and Windows Me. The only way to get DOS W is to get one of those Windows versions. | | | Even if you dont have Windows, DOS is probably on your hard disk anyway, since nearly all computers having hard disks were sold with DOS already on the hard disk. |
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http://www.secretguide.net/read/index.php?filename=ms_dos
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| | MS-DOS from FOLDOC |
| | Also know as PC-DOS or simply as DOS, which annoys people familiar with other similarly abbreviated operating systems (the name goes back to the mid-1960s, when it was attached to IBM's first disk operating system for the IBM 360). | | | Add-ons to DOS, such as Microsoft Windows and DESQview, take advantage of EMS and allow the user to have multiple applications loaded at once and switch between them. | | | Most version of DOS came with some version of BASIC. |
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http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/?MS-DOS
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| | The FDISK.COM DOS Internet Pages |
| | Novafont for DOS VGA a small program that loads a font much easier to read than the one included in normal VGA boards. | | | FreeDOS is an open source, free DOS project. | | | A software based Network Address Translating Router for dos (beta but free). |
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http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx
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| | What is DOS? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | However, DOS is still a 16-bit operating system and does not support multiple users or multitasking. | | | The term DOS can refer to any operating system, but it is most often used as a shorthand for MS-DOS (Microsoft disk operating system). | | | For some time, it has been widely acknowledged that DOS is insufficient for modern computer applications. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DOS.html
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| | Using MS-Dos7 Commands |
| | These pages list the MS-Dos7 (Win 95/98 DOS) commands along with their syntax and examples of their use and useful related information. |
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http://home7.inet.tele.dk/batfiles/msdos7
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| | MS-Dos |
| | Edit is used for viewing and modifing files at a dos level. | | | Do not format a floppy disk at a size higher that is was designed for. | | | For example, do not format a 720k floppy disk at 1.44MB. |
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http://www.it4all.org/dosprog.html
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| | DOS Shell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The DOS Shell is a file manager first debuted in MS-DOS and PC-DOS 4.0 (June 1988) and discontinued after version 6.0 but part of the "Supplemental Disk" until 6.22 for MS-DOS - as such was not a core part of the operating system throughout its evolution but rather an add-on. | | | The shell is very much like a DOS version of Windows File Manager. | | | The shell also has a help system, "program list", "task swapper". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Shell
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| | MS-DOS DEBUG Program |
| | Only under 16-bit DOS, does DEBUG actually have access to the real Memory locations in which the operating system itself is running; making it much easier to crash the whole system if an error is made. | | | DEBUG was only one of a small handful of DOS 5.0 programs that didn't require any changes to run under all these NT systems. | | | BM's Personal Computer™ DOS 1.00 in 1981, his DEBUG.COM utility was included with it. |
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http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/asm/debug/debug.htm
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| | MS-DOS Versions Information |
| | MS Part Number for 5.25" MS package: 086-13V50, marked "Not for retail sale except with a computer system" in small print. | | | MS product number for 5.25" version is 089-014V200, with box rear labeled 1089 Part No. 07828. | | | MS product number for 3.5" version is 089-015V200, with box rear labeled 0988 Part No. 04333. |
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http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msdosv.htm
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| | Interesting DOS programs - Home Page |
| | Also, do email a thank you to the authors of any of the programs you use. | | | Here are several links to various DOS software and other DOS related websites. | | | HX DOS Extender free DOS extender which contains a Win32 API emulation which allows Win32 console apps to be run in DOS |
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http://www.opus.co.tt/dave
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| | MS-DOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are a number of other emulators for running DOS under various versions of UNIX, even on non-x86 platforms. | | | In new computers, MS-DOS cannot run directly if the hard drive uses the NTFS file system, which is the recommended file system in Windows XP. | | | Microsoft decided to use backslashes as pathname separators rather than slashes as on Unix apparently due to the latter character being used as the switch character in most DOS and CP/M programs. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
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| | MS-DOS help and commands |
| | MS-DOS 1.0 was released in 1981 for IBM computers and the latest version of MS-DOS is MS-DOS 6.22, which was released in 1994. | | | Microsoft DOS (Disk Operating System) is a command line user interface. | | | See the complete MS-DOS history by visiting our DOS section of our history section. |
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http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm
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| | MS-DOS Partitioning Summary |
| | MS-DOS versions 5.0 and later support the same partitioning strategy as version 4.x, including Fdisk's inability to create more than one primary MS- DOS partition on a physical disk. | | | On computers with two physical hard disks, a PRI DOS partition is not required on the second physical disk. | | | Fdisk still creates only one PRI DOS partition on a physical disk. |
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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q69/9/12.ASP
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| | Smart Computing Article - Optional Settings For DOS Shell |
| | DOS Shell will tell you when you are about to delete a file by saving another file with the same name, including your system startup files. | | | DOS Shell doesn't automatically update the contents of your disks or diskettes after you delete, change, copy, or move a file. | | | DOS Shell has several configuration options that can make the use of this shell program a lot easier and a good deal more fun, but first you have to know how to access these options. |
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http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/1995/mar95/pcn0305/pcn0305.asp&guid=62FAB0686AF74BEE99DAE82431DBB63C
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| | MS-DOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are a number of other emulators for running DOS under various versions of UNIX, even on non-x86 platforms. | | | In new computers, MS-DOS cannot run directly if the hard drive uses the NTFS file system, which is the recommended file system in Windows XP. | | | Still later versions of MS Windows ran independently of DOS but included much of the old code such that DOS could run in virtual machines under the new OS. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
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| | MS-DOS Commands |
| | Displays the version table and sets the version of DOS that is reported to programs. | | | DOS will search the specified path(s) if the file is not found in the current path. | | | Whenever you enter a DOS command that deals with disk drives and you are already working in the drive in question, you do not have to enter the drive designator. |
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http://www.dewassoc.com/support/msdos/dos_commands.htm
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