This post is a bit longer than I had expected, so aplogies in advance.<BR><BR><BR><BR>I am working with some ancient DOS software for school. I have the 'windows' version of the software package, ...

Two weeks ago, in this column, we looked at some macros and DOS commands that can make your time at the DOS command prompt more like the Unix environment that most of us know and love. In this week’s ...

One of the other problems that I ran into when trying to make my DOS prompt behave more like my Unix systems was how to invoke my carefully crafted macros every time I opened a new DOS command window.

An instruction that DOS and Windows execute from the command line or from within a batch file. See Windows commands and cmd abc's. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction ...

In Windows, users can run DOS programs along side Windows programs. Pressing Alt-Tab switches between all open DOS and Windows applications. DOS programs are usually run in a window so they can be ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

vDos is one of the DOS emulators for Windows that lets you run DOS programs on your Windows device. You can download it from softpedia.com for free. After downloading ...

While Unix-like operating systems have captured my imagination, the first computer I owned ran MS-DOS. While these systems are widely considered different, MS-DOS helped me develop command-line habits ...