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 batch FOR loop with FIND.exe is stripping out blank lines?

This DOS batch script is stripping out the blank lines and not showing the blank lines in the file even …

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Why I am getting "Echo is on" when trying to print a variable in batch

I tring to excute a simple batch file scripts : echo %1 set var = %1 echo %var% When I am running it in …

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How to execute a dos command from MATLAB and return control immediately to MATLAB (without spawning a dos window)

I want to execute a batch file in dos from MATLAB and have control returned immediately to MATLAB. However, I …

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What are the difference between MS-dos FAT32 format and windows FAT32 format

What are the difference between MS-dos FAT32 format and windows FAT32 format?

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Using echo without trailing space in DOS

I noticed that when I use echo to print something to a file in DOS, a space is appended to …

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Typing the tilde ~ character in DOS

In my DOS prompt I have to put in a tilde (~) character to open any files. For some reason it …

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In what language was MSDOS originally written?

In what language was MSDOS originally written in? The Wikipedia Article implies either C, QBasic or Pascal, but: C was …

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How to find if a string is in a list of strings in a DOS batch file

I'd like to check if an argument to a batch file is valid based on a list of strings. For …

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Batch file for loop through switch-like arguments?

I'm trying to loop through the arguments that I am passing to a batch file. Based on the argument, I …

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Coloured output in Turbo C++

My compiler is Turbo C++ v3.0 with DOS v5.0 emulated in DOSBox v0.74 I use this because Turbo C++ is …

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