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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

PCWorld demonstrates how Windows 11 users can run classic PC games from the 80s and 90s using DOSBox, a free emulator that simulates MS-DOS environments. DOSBox supports vintage titles like ...

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 ...

On June 29, 2019, the FreeDOS Project turns 25 years old. That's a major milestone for any open-source software project! In honor of this anniversary, Jim Hall shares this look at how FreeDOS got ...

At the risk of dating myself, I cut my teeth on MS-DOS (after moving on from the Commodore 64, that is), the command-line interface operating system that predated Windows. MS-DOS first arrived in the ...

When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an A500+ from my Sinclair Spectrum. The Amiga could do it all, it became my programming environment for electronic ...

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.