Questions tagged [ms-dos]
MS-DOS was the most popular operating system for desktop PCs until the mid-1990s. Do not use this tag for questions about Windows command line programs or scripts.
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Freespace in CMD command
This command is amazing and just what I need. Thank you to who have written it.
I made a bat file that shows all PC details on one screen.... So when I use this command in my bat file it keeps closing....
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How to transfer files from host to DOS QEMU C drive?
I downloaded MS-DOS 6.22 and I installed it on my qemu. Now I want to transfer files from host to my DOS QEMU C drive.
Edit: My host operating system is 64-bit Linux (Debian).
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How do I download the RSS Feed XML file in dos command batch mode?
I have a specific requirement that I need to download the RSS feed file (it is in XML format) from the given link using dos command.
I have tried the following command and it keeps giving me syntax ...
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convert character set (German)
I have a text file that uses various characters in the 128+ range in currently non-standard ways.
The file command just says Non-ISO extended-ASCII.
From the context I can recognise these:
Octal 201: ...
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Corrupted Files Delete in Windows [duplicate]
I am preparing a file using shell script and while doing some tests, I added the pause> nul line into my sh file. Then I ran the sh file, but there was a file named nul on the desktop and I can't ...
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What is this for a file name encoding and how to fix it?
On my Linux machine I found old files (at least from 2004 if not older), so possibly Win9x days. Maybe they came over some old FAT drive on my disk or some old Samba share.
Umlaute are very weirdly ...
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can i connect a Floppy Drive to USB Adapter / copy data, can i emulate a floppy drive and rip?
can i connect a 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive Connector 34 PIN 34P to USB Adapter to somethign and copy the data, *(rather than connecting a floppy drive and copying to floopy and then transferign it ...
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How to read files name last character and and rename them by running a batch file
I have 3 files in a folder which are:
XXX_a.txt
XXX_b.txt
XXX_c.txt
The filename can be varied, only the last character of the 3 files
a, b and c are not changed
I need to rename the files as below:
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How to use WMI to query IP address from specific NIC?
I have a computer with two NICs. I'm trying to query the IP address of each NIC separately to use in BGInfo.
This article describes how to query the IP address of only active network interfaces. It ...
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run an old program under Win10 64 bits with parameters
I need to run in compatibility mode 2 programs for MsDos:
quick basic (QBX.exe);
some program called HEOB which was created in quick basic (HEOB.BAS).
Normally I would create a *.bat program ...
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batch file put if inside for loop error
I have a working for loop to print all zip file's name under one working directory:
@echo off
setlocal
for %%i in (*.zip) do (
echo %%i
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I have another working if block to check and print ...
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Running file from batch file
I am working in Windows 10.
This is my code saved in .bat file:
%windir%\System32\cmd.exe "/K" C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\...
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Eject connected external hard drive using cmd
Is there any way to eject external hard drive safely which is currently connected to the pc only using cmd?
I can only use cmd right now and GUI is out the question.
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Set an environmental variable with the date on year in the future
I can run this command on my Mac:
exp=$(date -v+8760H +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
I then run: echo $exp and it produces the desired result i.e. 2021-04-20T09:06:44Z
I then modified the command to run it ...
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is it possible to install stuff to dosbox
I legally downloaded an ISO of space hulk and a copy of dosbox 0.74-3.
I mounted the ISO, opened it up in dos and then in an attempt to play it, I tried to install it.
The whole thing just freezes ...
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