Top "Dos" questions

A family of disk-based operating systems (Disk Operating System) for mainframes and minicomputers in the 1960s and 1970s, and subsequently IBM PCs and compatibles of the 1980s and 1990s, including MS-DOS.

DOS BAT file equivalent to Unix basename command?

Is there an easy way to get to the basename (file name without extension) of a DOS file name using …

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Is it possible to multiply by an immediate with mul in x86 Assembly?

I am learning assembly for x86 using DosBox emulator. I am trying to perform multiplication. I do not get how …

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Multiple do commands in a for loop: Echoing a string to a file and then redirecting to the command window

I am trying to write a batch file to iteratively execute a fortran compiled executable. Normally one would go to …

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Get Value of Registry Key

I have a batch script that checks if a registry key exists and if it does exist then open Internet …

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How to Open Cmd(Command Prompt) through C program

Actually, I want to execute DOS command by a C program and want to display the output of DOS command …

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Move all files except some (file pattern) from a DOS command

From a DOS command I want to move all files that do not match a file name pattern. Something like …

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How to split string without for loop in batch file

I want to split a string in two parts, without using any for loop. For example, I have the string …

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how to check end-of-line of a text file to see if it is unix or dos format?

I need to convert the text file to dos format (ending each line with 0x0d0x0a, rather than 0…

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Command line to delete matching files and directories recursively

How can I recursively delete all files & directories that match a certain pattern? e.g. remove all the ".svn" …

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Newline in 8086 assembly language: my text prints stair-stepped

I'm getting stair-step output like this My program works correctly, except that when I print a new line, and then …

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