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 ...

To this day I think I'm more comfortable in command line environments on Linux/Unix OS's because of learning early on both MS-DOS and Commodore. If I want to get something done it's still my go-to ...

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 ...

How to permanently map OneDrive to a drive letter using a batch file Your email has been sent Previously, we outlined a method for mapping a drive letter to Microsoft OneDrive using the old “subst” ...

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 ...

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 ...