• DOS Shell is a file manager that debuted in MS-DOS and PC DOS version 4.0, released in June 1988. It was no longer included in MS-DOS version 6, but remained...
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    DOS/360 from 1966. Others include Apple DOS, Apple ProDOS, Atari DOS, Commodore DOS, TRSDOS, and AmigaDOS. IBM PC DOS (and the separately sold MS-DOS)...
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    the desktop metaphor such as Windows), text-based menuing (including DOS Shell and IBM AIX SMIT), and keyboard shortcuts. Compared with a graphical user...
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    COMMAND.COM (redirect from COMMAND (shell))
    the DOS API to communicate with the disk operating system. The compatible command processor under FreeDOS is sometimes also called FreeCom. As a shell, COMMAND...
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  • Windows shell with another program. A number of third party shells exist that can be used in place of the standard Windows shell. DOS Shell Command Prompt...
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    MS-DOS compatible systems include: IBM PC DOS DR-DOS, Novell DOS, OpenDOS FreeDOS PTS-DOS ROM-DOS Microsoft made IBM PC DOS for IBM. It and MS-DOS were...
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  • PathMinder (category DOS software)
    PathMinder is a file manager software, or DOS shell, originally designed for use under DOS disk operating systems. Published by Westlake Data Corporation...
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  • the MS-DOS disk operating system (DOS), especially as used on an IBM PC compatible computer. Other DOS variants as well as the legacy Windows shell, Command...
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    catalogs comparable aspects of notable operating system shells. Background execution allows a shell to run a command without user interaction in the terminal...
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  • environment variable names, while DOS, OS/2, and Windows are not case-sensitive. In most Unix and Unix-like command-line shells, an environment variable's value...
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    A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered...
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    XTree (category DOS software)
    the market, as DOS shipped with only a command-line file manager, until the generally unsuccessful DOS Shell that was provided with MS-DOS 4.0. Even then...
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  • this is an ASCII Control-Z, code 26. Some MS-DOS programs, including parts of the Microsoft MS-DOS shell (COMMAND.COM) and operating-system utility programs...
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    IBM PC DOS (an acronym for IBM Personal Computer Disk Operating System), also known as PC DOS or IBM DOS, is a discontinued disk operating system for...
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    MS-DOS 5 also came with a complementary graphical DOS Shell. The Windows 9x family came bundled with COMMAND.COM, the command-line environment of MS-DOS...
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  • available commands. Older, related operating systems, DOS and Windows 9x, provided COMMAND.COM as the shell. cmd.exe replaced COMMAND.COM in the Windows product...
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    additional functions. Some notable programs of this kind were Microsoft Word, DOS Shell, WordPerfect, Norton Commander, Turbo Vision based Borland Turbo Pascal...
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    built-in for most Unix shells (Bourne, tcsh, Bash, etc.), Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell, and MS-DOS COMMAND.COM. In a shell, the change directory...
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  • ipconfig settings in Vista Windows 95, 98, ME; Windows 2000 and XP MS-DOS shell syntax ipconfig documentation for Windows Mac OS X ipconfig(8): view and...
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  • Tech Icons: Where Are They Now?". Mashable. Retrieved October 15, 2016. "DOS user Need No Longer Covet After Dark for Windows". PC Magazine. Vol. 12,...
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  • operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs)....
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    art). These animations, however, required ANSI.SYS to be loaded by the DOS shell. If the user's computer wasn't already configured to load the ANSI.SYS...
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    functionality of the platform. However, the CLI/Shell of Amiga is not just a simple text-based interface like in MS-DOS, but another graphic process driven by...
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    COM file (redirect from DOS COM executable)
    management system. An example of a complex program is COMMAND.COM, the DOS shell, which provided a loader to load other COM or EXE programs. In the .COM...
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  • for MS-DOS 5: DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS FILES=30 SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS /E:512...
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    one-line code change Easy DOS Configuration Wizard simplifies the setup and launching of a single dBASE program Enhanced DOS SHELL functionality Display for...
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  • KDE DOS Shell in MS-DOS/PC DOS File Manager in Windows macOS Finder Nautilus in GNOME (default since v2.30) File Explorer (Windows Explorer) PC Shell in...
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  • Lotus Magellan (category DOS software)
    generally pleased with the program... Reviews:Magellan Smoothly Links DOS Shell, Search Features, By John Walkenbach, InfoWorld, 15 May 1989, Page 73...
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    Hyperion (computer) (redirect from H-DOS)
    amount of typing required. This user interface was comparable to the many DOS shell programs available at the time but functioned much more smoothly because...
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  • Norton Commander (redirect from Visual DOS)
    Desktop, a graphical shell for MS-DOS and Windows, succeeded Norton Commander. It came in two variants, Norton Desktop for DOS and Norton Desktop for...
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