09-22-2006
With Windows XP, you can right-click on the floppy drive and one of the options is to format the floppy. A window will pop-up and it has a check box for "create an MS-DOS setup disk". If you remember the old "setup" command under DOS, that is basicly what happens. The resulting floppy can boot up and run command.com, but nothing else is on the floppy. I did that, and from my MS-DOS prompt, I typed "ver". Oddly enough, I got:
Windows Millennium [Version 4.90.3000]
I have to believe that this represents the latest version of MS-DOS.
DR-DOS is still with us. This is an option if you want to buy a supported product. Apparently DR-DOS forked at some time in the past. There seems to be a free open-source version
DR-DOS/OpenDOS. So there are two versions of DR-DOS available. And there is a very ambitious project called
GNU/DOS which is a basicly a distro of FreeDOS.
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
dxmtools
dxmtools(1) General Commands Manual dxmtools(1)
NAME
dxmtools - DOS Tools Graphical User Interface for manipulating files on an MSDOS diskette
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/X11/dxmtools
OPTIONS
DESCRIPTION
The DOS Tools application, dxmtools, uses a graphical user interface to copy files to and from an MSDOS formatted diskette to manipulate
files on that diskette, in the same manner as the mtools(1) commands, which are accessed from the command line interface.
The DOS Tools application accepts the standard X11 resource options. For more information, see the X(1X) reference page
Use the DOS Tools application to: Copy a diskette file to Tru64 UNIX Copy Tru64 UNIX files to the diskette Create a directory on the
diskette Delete diskette files Format a diskette Change the diskette volume label Change the archive, read-only, hidden, and system
attribute bits on a diskette file Display the contents of a diskette file Find a diskette file by its name, size, or attribute settings
Rename a diskette file.
MSDOS filenames are optionally composed of a drive letter followed by a colon, optional subdirectories, and a filename. Subdirectory names
can use either the '/' or '' separator. The current working directory relative to the diskette is A:/.
The regular expression pattern matching routines follow the UNIX-style rules. For example, an asterisk (*), in place of asterisks separated
by a dot (.) that is *.*, matches all MSDOS files. The archive, hidden, read-only, and system attribute bits are ignored during pattern
matching.
The DOS Tools application requires a diskette properly installed on the system.
The DOS Tools application addresses a device named /dev/disk/floppy; a symbolic link between the diskette device and /dev/disk/floppy is
required.
Online help is available for the dxmtools application. To get help, click on any Help button or use the Help pull-down menu.
The DOS Tools application can be invoked from:
The CDE Application Manager.
Application Group: Desktop_Apps
Desktop_Apps Subgroup: dxmtools
EXAMPLES
Invoke the DOS Tools application from the command line. /usr/bin/X11/dxmtools Open the DOS Tools help volume from the command line without
running the application. /usr/dt/bin/dthelpview -h /usr/dt/appconfig/help/C/dxmtools.sdl
FILES
DOS Tools executable DOS Tools Help Volume Symbolic link for diskette drive.
SEE ALSO
Commands: ln(1), mattrib(1), mcd(1), mcopy(1), mdel(1), mdir(1), mlabel(1), mmd(1), mrd(1), mread(1), mren(1), mtools(1), mtype(1),
mwrite(1), X(1X)
Diskette interface: fd(7)
Utilities: MAKEDEV(8), mknod(8)
dxmtools(1)