DOS ain't dead - DOS Filenames

DOS Filenames (Users)

posted by w3a537 , Colorado Springs CO USA, 31.07.2010, 05:08

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> What DOS would you recommend?
>
> FreeDOS 2038 , EDR-DOS 2009 , DR-DOS 7.01
>

MSD-710 and MSD-800 are compatible with all the DOS programs I use.

I started testing FreeDos a while back. I had just begun to test
the drivers loaded in CONFIG.SYS. IO.SYS, COMMAND.COM, (or the
free-dos equivalent names), UMBPCI, and LOWDMA worked fine.

The fifth driver I tested was "Drive Exchange" from this web site.
It doesn't work at all and I cannot live without it.

I don't consider drive exchange to be defective. I think that
FreeDos is simply "less than" adequately DOS compatible.

This was just a tiny start into testing FreeDos. My thoughts are
that if I had continued a thourogh test, that a "large list" of
problems would be uncovered.

I quickly gave up on FreeDos.

As for EDR-DOS there are compatibility problems too.

I have the following types of disks:

1.44mb floppies.
120mb LS-120 super floppies.
IDE hard disks.
SATA hard disks.
USB sticks.

Under MS-DOS the MSDOS formatter formates all of these fine.

Under EDR-DOS it's formatter only formats 1.44 and IDE disks.
I had to search the internet for formatters, and it tool an
additional two formatters for a total of three to format
everything.

So I quit using EDR-DOS too.

Steve ...

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Complete thread:

DOS Filenames - w3a537, 27.07.2010, 07:03 (Users)
- DOS Filenames - RayeR, 27.07.2010, 16:36
  - DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 27.07.2010, 17:05
    - DOS Filenames - RayeR, 30.07.2010, 00:14
- DOS Filenames - bretjohn, 27.07.2010, 22:09
  - DOS Filenames - Arjay, 27.07.2010, 22:47
    - DOS Filenames - w3a537, 28.07.2010, 06:10
  - DOS Filenames - w3a537, 28.07.2010, 06:07
    - DOS Filenames - DOS386, 28.07.2010, 06:20
      - DOS Filenames - w3a537, 28.07.2010, 07:54
        DOS Filenames - ron, 28.07.2010, 08:46
        DOS Filenames - DOS386, 29.07.2010, 05:42
        DOS Filenames - Japheth, 29.07.2010, 07:28
        DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 29.07.2010, 08:22
        DOS Filenames - Japheth, 29.07.2010, 08:52
        DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 30.07.2010, 05:30
        DOS Filenames - DOS386, 30.07.2010, 06:10
        DOS Filenames - Japheth, 30.07.2010, 07:23
        DOS Filenames for Steve - DOS386, 30.07.2010, 07:46
        DOS Filenames for Steve - w3a537, 31.07.2010, 05:25
        DOS Filenames for Steve - DOS386, 31.07.2010, 07:49
        DOS Filenames for Steve - Rugxulo, 31.07.2010, 13:13
        DOS Filenames for Steve - DOS386, 31.07.2010, 13:29
        DOS Filenames for Steve - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 00:55
        DOS Filenames for Steve - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 00:36
        DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 30.07.2010, 15:16
        DOS Filenames - RayeR, 30.07.2010, 21:00
        DOS Filenames - Japheth, 31.07.2010, 07:06
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 31.07.2010, 05:23
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 31.07.2010, 05:12
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 31.07.2010, 05:08
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 31.07.2010, 05:51
        DOS Filenames - Khusraw, 31.07.2010, 08:05
        DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 31.07.2010, 13:08
        DOS Filenames - Khusraw, 31.07.2010, 13:39
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 01:07
        DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 31.07.2010, 13:04
        DOS Filenames - Japheth, 31.07.2010, 13:44
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 01:32
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 01:27
        DOS Filenames - Arjay, 01.08.2010, 11:40
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 23:05
        Filewatcher (DOS Filenames) - Arjay, 02.08.2010, 08:43
        DOS Filenames - mht, 02.08.2010, 07:51
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 02.08.2010, 21:47
        DOS Filenames - mht, 03.08.2010, 06:57
- DOS Filenames | NTLFN crap - DOS386, 28.07.2010, 03:41
  - DOS Filenames | NTLFN crap - w3a537, 28.07.2010, 06:29