There is some work being done to create a free port of XFree86 to Microsoft Windows. However, in the mean time, if you need to run X on such a platform you'll need to use one of the available commercial servers. One of the commercial products, X Appeal, is from an XFree86 sponsor and is a port of the XFree86 servers to MS-DOS. They also have a freely available demo version. X11R6.3 does include some support for MicroSoft Windows NT.

First, start up SmartDrive to speed things up. Next, run WINNT from the I386 folder. Setup should launch, warn you if you don't have SmartDrive loaded, copy the cd to a temporarily to your hard disk and reboot your computer. A more detailed guide.

Most console applications should run fine; the following table lists equivalents of commonly-found functions. All these functions require windows.h. If your application is written for the BGI (Borland Graphics Interface), Konstantin Knizhnik has written a BGI emulation layer for Windows called 'WinBGI'. This will allow you to run your BGI programs, mostly unmodified, in Windows. If your application is written for the Allegro graphics library, there is a version prepared for Windows.

If you are programming for MS-DOS, you will need to write an interrupt driven handler for the RS-232 ports. Only the most trival output-only applications can use the BIOS functions built into the PC. Anything that needs reliable input needs to use interrupts. Win16 and Win32 supply drivers that take care of that problem. All you have to learn with those is how to use the API, which is significantly different between the two platforms.

No. We have never supported running on MS-DOS or Windows 3.1, and in fact have long since deleted all MS-DOS-related code. We're not particularly interested in patches for these platforms, as they would introduce huge amounts of code clutter due to the woefully underfeatured nature of these systems. (See GNU Emacs for a port to MS-DOS.)

This would be illegal. We would have to license DOS from Microsoft, a license is needed for every diskette image we would send or make available for download. You do not want to know how expensive that is. In addition, Freedos has proven itself to be a worthy replacement when it comes to harddisk recovery.

There are two approaches to get the Portfolio to read and write standard 720k format disks. The first is the Retriever, a serial operated, battery powered, IBM compatible, 3.5 inch disk drive for the Portfolio. The problem, however, is that it is currently available only in England from DIP systems (0483) 301555, and cost 350 pounds (about 600 dollars). Another approach is the via the HPIL interface. This interface allows connection to various HP devices, including a 3.5 inch disk drive.

Windows ME has an installable option that permits the use of a DOS prompt. Please see their help files for an explanation of installing this. Also, you might want to read article Q179644 in the Microsoft knowledge base (http://www.msdn.microsoft.com).

Well, firstly we are developing a Windows user interface. This will be Win-32, i.e. it will run under Windows 95 and Windows NT. But since the compiler is a non-graphical application, and the DOS interface runs quite happily under all flavours of Windows already, it has not been as high a priority as making sure that the basic functionality is top-notch. In other words, we believe an excellent compiler with a DOS front-end is better than an average compiler with a Windows front end.

I have a NetWare 5.1 server and I need to create a multiple config boot. With MS-DOS, it was as simple as using the following structure in CONFIG.SYS. [Menu] Menuitem=BootServ, Boot Server Menuitem=BootWork, Boot Workstation Menudefault=BootServ, 10 [BootServ] [BootWork] Files=60 Buffers=20 Device=c:\CDROMDRV.SYS /D:CD001 Then AUTOEXEC.BAT looked like this. Prompt $P$G Goto %config% :BootServ cd\nwserver server goto END :BootWork mscdex /d:CD001 goto END :END Here is a sample CONFIG.

You can use Peter Watson's MUG! program on your IIgs to transfer files via MS-DOS Iomega Zip disks. MUG! will let you read Zip disks on a IIgs equipped with a Zip drive and a SCSI interface. MUG is an NDA; so, it can be installed like other NDA's-- e.g. having the main MUG! file (probably MUG.1.01) in the System/Desk.Accs/ folder when booting. For easy use, start with a regular ProDOS Zip disk in your IIgs Zip Drive. Start a standard IIgs desktop program that does not test inserted disks.

XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT don't contain DOS, although XP can create DOS-bootable disks. All three OSs support the cmd.exe command shell, which lets you run NT-equivalent DOS commands. In XP, go to Start, Programs, Accessories or click Start, Run, then type to start the command shell. For earlier application support, you might want to try the command.com shell, which is more compatible with MS-DOS than cmd.exe is. In XP, click Start, Run, then type to start the command.com shell. Command.

It is likely that you have run into the USB problems that Windows 98 has brought with it. If you have a USB device plugged into your computer (Gamepads etc) then sometimes, when you shut down into DOS - Windows 98 will give you a blue screen error, that only a reboot can fix. The work around is to unplug the USB device before rebooting.

A. We don't plan to support these, a bit, outdated operating systems, as these operating systems are too slow for the data synchronization between the phone and PC. A. We don't plan to support these operating systems In the most nearest future. But, of course, we will think about implementing such support. However, we don't have such expansions even in plans yet. A. Yes! We support MS Windows 2003 service since version 2.1.5.

Most of them cannot. A system that runs exclusively MS Windows is, in general, more virus-resistant than a plain DOS system. The reason is that most resident viruses are not compatible with the memory management in Windows. Furthermore, most existing viruses will damage Windows applications if they try to infect them as normal (i.e. DOS) EXE files. The damaged applications will stop working and this will alert the user that something is wrong. Virus-resistant however, is by no means virus-proof.

Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support a DOS and Windows compatibility package. This software will allow DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 programs to run within a NEXTSTEP window. Support will include DOS "Protected" mode and Windows 3.1. This package is called SoftPC and comes with every NEXTSTEP system. The software is not free with NEXTSTEP, you have to pay extra. Anyway you are not limited in a 30 day test phase when installing it.

Windows XP does not have pure DOS mode, the only two ways are to execute "CMD"(preferred) or "COMMAND" from the run dialog box. If you want the real pure one, you can boot up from a DOS/Win95/98/ME boot disk or create one using Windows XP itself (insert a diskette, right click the drive in My Computer, Format, check Make System Disk) or you can install 2 OS's (like Windows 95/98/ME, which allows you to access pure DOS).

Sure, you can. Create a primary partiton BEFORE your Windows partition (e.g. with PartitionMagic) and get a boot manager (I use the german tool 'Bootmanager', you can get a free trial version at http://www.bootmanager-pro.de).

MS-DOS isn't gone, its just harder to get too. Just create a Windows Start Up disk and you can easily get to MS-Dos. Programs like Scandisk no longer need to run in Dos if there is a bad shutdown, Microsoft has improved the program to run when Windows restarts. No. Creating a boot disk to run a bios update is easily done. Read our tip for details on how to create one.

The CPHANTOM project is a 'C' language skeleton for a MS-DOS Int 2F file system redirector. The example is inspired by the Pascal language PHANTOM redirector example provided in the book Undocumented DOS by Andrew Schulman, Raymond J. Michels, Jim Kyle, Tim Paterson, David Maxey and Ralf Brown, published by Addison Wesely, 1990. CPHANTOM is provided as a Borland C++ 4.5 project. The PCA CPHANTOM redirector was designed to illustrate a few more functions than the original PHANTOM example.

A) DOS (disk operating system) was the operating system software developed for 16-bit Intel processors and shipped with the first IBM PCs, and until the introduction of Microsoft Windows. DOS uses a command-line user interface.

If LILO doesn't work, and if the machine has MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows, you may be left with a computer that won't boot. This can also happen on an upgrade to your Linux distribution. Re-installing LILO is the last thing that the installation does. So it is vitally important when installing or upgrading Linux on a dual boot machine, to have a MS-DOS or Windows rescue disk nearby so you can FDISK -MBR. Then you can go about using LOADLIN.EXE instead of LILO.

MS Windows support is relatively recent, and still experimental; Freeciv was originally written for Unix and the X window system, and is, in fact, extremely portable across Unix versions. One option is to install a Unix variant on your PC (such as Linux) and use that. The Freeciv client is unable to open a window on your local X display. Are you running an X server at all? Maybe you need to install and run one, or switch to a Freeciv that doesn't need X; see the previous question.

Posted in Bootstrike Forums by wmccain] Windows XP includes TWO command-line processors, CMD.EXE and COMMAND.COM. The second one, COMMAND.COM, is a stripped-down version of the command processor from DOS. The Windows XP version of COMMAND.COM is severely restricted in its capabilities (lacks long filename support and many other features familiar from Windows 98SE), so it is all-but-unusable. Furthermore, it turns out that there are TWO ways to run CMD.

No. Windows XP is not based on DOS, as is Windows 9x. However, Windows XP does support a DOS-like command line environment, and you can run most DOS applications--and even many DOS games--in Windows XP. Windows XP also supports an optional boot-time command line environment called the Recover Console. As its name suggests, the Recovery Console is only designed to be used in the event of a system problem. To enable it, insert your Windows XP CD-ROM and type