What's happening to MS-DOS?

What's happening to MS-DOS? Not so fashion anymore?
Administrators are now dealing with powerpoint.
I'll have to learn all from the beginning.

On 02/10/2015 07:55 PM, Robson wrote:
What's happening to MS-DOS? Not so fashion anymore?
Administrators are now dealing with powerpoint.
I'll have to learn all from the beginning.



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http://www.pictview.com/showjpg.htm

"Robson" wrote in message
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What's happening to MS-DOS? Not so fashion anymore?
Administrators are now dealing with powerpoint.
I'll have to learn all from the beginning.

I think you mean PowerShell, not PowerPoint :-) Two entirely different
things.
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SC Tom

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:55:02 -0500, Robson wrote:

What's happening to MS-DOS? Not so fashion anymore?
Administrators are now dealing with powerpoint.
I'll have to learn all from the beginning.

Unfortunately, Microsoft abandoned it and said - believe it or not - that
it was outdated and no longer useful.

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In the last episode of , Dave
said:

Well, it is outdated but hasn't gone away. As far as I know, any version
of MSDOS should still boot a modern machine, although I haven't been able
to verify this with very early versions.

If you have a machine with a BIOS, yes. Newer machines use UEFI instead,
which may or may not have backward compatibility available or enabled.

I do have a later version on a usb
stick. You will need ntfsdos to access the hd.

If formatted via NTFS, true.

For those enamoured with using the command prompt, Linux is a better
choice, Puppy Linux does very well from a usb stick.

Windows has two well supported command line environments, CMD.EXE is the
older version, loosely based on the old COMMAND.COM interpreter, and
PowerShell as a modern, object oriented alternative.

Linux is a valid option too, if you feel like changing your entire
operating system.

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On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:31:01 +0000 (UTC), Dave
wrote in

Well, it is outdated but hasn't gone away. As far as I know, any version
of MSDOS should still boot a modern machine, although I haven't been able
to verify this with very early versions. I do have a later version on a usb
stick. You will need ntfsdos to access the hd.
The virtual dos prompt supplied with windows 7 is limited and will not run
older dos programs.

Check out https://jpsoft.com/ The have a command console called Take
Command that is much better and more powerful than anything MS ever
offered.

Take Command 17.0 Released November 2014

Take Command is a comprehensive interactive GUI and command line
environment that makes using the Windows command prompt and creating
batch files easy and far more powerful. Take Command displays your
command line applications in tabbed windows, with optional
Explorer-style integration for a visual look at your folders. Take
Command includes hundreds of major enhancements to CMD commands such
as COPY, DEL, and DIR, and adds more than 160 new commands, 620
internal variables and functions, a batch file IDE / debugger,
advanced command line editing and completion, and thousands of other
features.
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Robson wrote:

What's happening to MS-DOS? Not so fashion anymore?
Administrators are now dealing with powerpoint.
I'll have to learn all from the beginning.

DOS went away a long time ago. CMD is not the same as DOS. And it's called
PowerShell, not powerpoint.

In the last episode of ,
CRNG said:

On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:31:01 +0000 (UTC), Dave
wrote in

Well, it is outdated but hasn't gone away. As far as I know, any version
of MSDOS should still boot a modern machine, although I haven't been able
to verify this with very early versions. I do have a later version on a usb
stick. You will need ntfsdos to access the hd.
The virtual dos prompt supplied with windows 7 is limited and will not run
older dos programs.

Check out https://jpsoft.com/ The have a command console called Take
Command that is much better and more powerful than anything MS ever
offered.

.... Until PowerShell.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a long time user of JPSoft, and generally enjoy
Take Command, but it's far less powerful and flexible than PowerShell in
a lot of respects.

Try batch scripting against files named "Hello & (Goodbye^'.txt" for
example, and you'll quickly run yourself into a nightmare circle due to
the way the command line interpretation works. PowerShell, on the other
hand, passes the file name as part of an object, so it can cleanly
differentiate between file name, and executable command line.

I really have a lot of trouble getting seriously into PowerShell, and
the annoying default execution policies don't make it any easier, but
ultimately it really outclasses TakeCommand for safety and usability
once you learn it.

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some nerd thinks about Star Trek"
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Brian Gregory wrote:

The virtual dos prompt supplied with windows 7 is limited and will not run
older dos programs.

It doesn't run any DOS programs. Only win32 programs.

Is that true in 32-bit Win7? I know 32-bit Win7 will run 16-bit GUI
programs. The 64-bit version of the system will not.


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