Dos programs downloads

New-dos

What is “New-Dos”? New-Dos is not much of anything, it is just  a style of writing good old Dos.  Programs are written for color monitors. Programs use the mouse and runs more like a GUI (Windows) . Program can access a CD drive as will a floppy drive. Long command line args are replace with a box(s) that you select or type in the needed info. The start up setup program is this type of format. 

Getting started with Dos

There are thousands of Dos files out there for free. I will go through some of them and move them to this site or place a link to that site. Start by working on a few “basic Dos commands”. These commands are mostly navigation type.  You will need to learn a few of them. Most commands only take a few minutes to learn. you can eek by with 6-7 Dos internal commands and a couple of external commands. See blow

Dos internal commands  This is a one time must learn. Dos external commands  Learn them as you go. The Mouse More files are using the mouse. CWSDPMI.EXE Dos extender. More Dos files are using it. Unzip Most downloads are zipped. You need unzip to unzip it. mem

Dos basic internal files

The original “Para_dos_Park” kit started with about 3 or 4 files. It seems like that no matter what was typed on the command line nothing worked.   Not so!  The file called “Command.com” hold many internal commands Like “DIR”, “CD”, “COPY”, “DEL”, “CLS”, “MD”, “TYPE” . It is a must that you learn the 7 or so basic Dos commands above.  You are dead in the water with out them!!   I think that you can learn the basic Dos commands in a less half hour of so and you are good for life. If you are a newbie go to
 http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~NSW/ench250/dostutor.htm#1A This is a basic tutorial for beginners. Every one should look at this one!
http://dos.rsvs.net/DOSPAGE/DOS_IC.HTM   This site is easy reading. The site list 24 internal command, you do not need to learn  them all. I use the 7 commands above about 90% of the time while in DOS.
For the more advance user, you can find a more complete detail list at
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/i/intecomm.htm

Dos basic external files

The “BIN” director on the A drive holds several basic survival files needed  for Freedos. SYS.EXE, FDISK.EXE, FORMAT.EXE are used to build or rebuild a Freedos system. Know what you are doing before using these files! CHKDSK.EXE is used to check your file system. it is safe to use. DEBUG.EXE is for advance user only, use with extreme caution! MOUSE.EXE, XCOPY.EXE, MOVE.EXE, EDIT.EXE are commads used by the average user. Learn them as you need them. It only takes a short time to learn each one except for “EDIT.EXE. Please spend some time with this one because EDIT.EXE can look inside many Dos files and make changes as needed. This will be your right hand partner in Dos  I like to use a program call Q.EXE.
http://dos.rsvs.net/DOSPAGE/DOS_EX.HTM This site is easy reading. The site list 79 external command, you do not need to learn them all just learn them as you need them.
For the more advance user, you can find a more complete detail list at
http://www.computerhope.com/overview.htm

Mouse

The mouse driver is by cutemouse. You can find it at
http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net
It is not necessary do download it as it comes in the “Para_Dos_Park”  kit. It is installed for you and easy to used. Seems to work with no problems. I have not tried the scroll wheel feature. The mouse is becoming a must for PDP as more and more Dos program use it.