computing, format is a command-line utility that carries out disk formatting. It is a component of various operating systems, including 86-DOS, MS-DOS, IBM...

The DOS MZ executable format is the executable file format used for .EXE files in DOS. The file can be identified by the ASCII string "MZ" (hexadecimal:...

released in 1981 under the name Relocatable Object Module Format, and is perhaps best known to DOS users as an .OBJ file. Versions for the 80286 (OMF-286)...

sizes, and DOS and Windows support a large-record-size DMF-formatted floppy format. After establishing the structure of tracks, a formatter also needs...

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...

high-level DOS FORMAT command... Most vendors supplied modified high-level format programs that permitted partitions of up to 32MB to be formatted properly...

formatted under 86-DOS 1.00 sport a FAT ID of FEh, however, in contrast to MS-DOS/PC DOS, 86-DOS does not seem to use this to detect the disk format,...

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)...

that some formats support multiple operating systems. 16-bit DOS MZ executable (MZ) The original DOS executable file format. These formats can be identified...

systems, Windows binaries (in PE format) can be executed using Wine. The HX DOS Extender also uses the PE format for native DOS 32-bit binaries, and can execute...

malware writers. The COM format is the original binary executable format used in CP/M (including SCP and MSX-DOS) as well as DOS. It is very simple; it...

the DOS 2.0 format, but could use the DOS 3.0 format as well. DOS 3.2 BPB: Officially, MS-DOS 3.20 still used the DOS 3.0 format, but SYS and FORMAT were...

commands provided by the MS-DOS disk operating system (DOS), especially as used on an IBM PC compatible computer. Other DOS variants as well as the legacy...

A batch file is a script file in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. It consists of a series of commands to be executed by the command-line interpreter,...

Atari-compatible disk drive can read a disk formatted with DOS 2.0S. DOS 2.0S consisted of DOS.SYS and DUP.SYS. DOS.SYS was loaded into memory, while DUP.SYS...

ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed...

object file (SREC Format) from paper tape. DOS COM files are a more recent example of absolute object files. Most object file formats are structured as...

DR-DOS 7.02 and higher, this pseudo-variable returns the last error level in a 3-digit format with leading zeros, f.e. "000".."255". Under Multiuser DOS...

additional information indicating an encoding. DOS and Microsoft Windows use a common text file format, with each line of text separated by a two-character...

Raw disk image, for archiving DOS formatted floppy disks, hard drives, and larger optical media. ISO – Generic format for most optical media, including...

As MS-DOS 3.0 formatted all 16 MB-32 MB partitions in the FAT16 format, a 20 MB hard disk formatted under MS-DOS 3.0 was not accessible by MS-DOS 2.0....

gave dynamic parser support for MS-DOS/PC DOS COUNTRY.SYS file formats in addition to DR-DOS' own COUNTRY.SYS formats, and it introduced support for the...

development tools. In DOS, the COM file format does not normally include metadata, while the EXE file and Windows Portable Executable (PE) formats do. These metadata...

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...

MS-DOS. An example CONFIG.SYS: 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...

this iteration of DOS in 1983, when Apple DOS was entirely replaced by ProDOS. ProDOS retains the 16-sector low-level format of DOS 3.3 for 5.25 inch...

the back of the shelf; the text of both works runs head-to-tail. The dos-à-dos format dates back at least to the 16th century, though they were most common...

executable file format, a successor to the DOS MZ executable format. It was used in Windows 1.0–3.x, Windows 9x, multitasking MS-DOS 4.0, OS/2 1.x, and...

is a tool to convert line breaks in a text file from Unix format (Line feed) to DOS format (carriage return + Line feed) and vice versa. When invoked...

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