Required Tools under DOS _dos/bat

DOS is a very powerful and practical operating system with the most users. However, after the installation of DOS, we found that the DOS command does not accomplish all the functions you need. At this point, we need some other software to implement those functions. There are a lot of practical software in DOS, so what tools should we choose to use as an essential tool? Here's a breakdown of the discussion.

When the operating system is installed, the first thing to make the entire computer's hardware to play their own functions, such as the mouse, CD-ROM, sound card and so on. Then you need to have the appropriate driver, and these drivers are DOS under the necessary tools. These drivers can be downloaded in the "DOS software" of this site, and installation and Setup methods see this column "DOS Hardware device use and settings."

After the hardware is working properly, let DOS do the required function. DOS is both a handy operating system and a basic operating system, and many interface enhancements (such as Windows 3.x/9x) are built on its basis, that is, DOS is their kernel. Therefore, it is very appropriate to manage some systems and disks under DOS, such as copying disks, partitioning, formatting, and so on. At this time, Ghost,fdisk,format and pqmagic disk tools can be used as a tool, can be considered as the necessary DOS tools. Of course, other system maintenance tools (such as disk inspection tools, etc.) are also very important, you can see in this column "DOS system Maintenance".

As you know, in order to save space, many files are accessed using a compression method. Therefore, the DOS compression and decompression tool is very important. The commonly used compression formats are Zip,rar and ARJ, and the DOS tools that can build and expand these compressed formats are PK (un) ZIP, (un) RAR and (un) ARJ. Their operation is very convenient and quick, such as Pkunzip *. Zip to expand all zip files under the current folder. The RAR and ARJ format is the same, you can establish or expand the corresponding compressed documents. However, it should be noted that since RAR in recent 3.0 version of the new RAR compression format, so many new RAR file application of the latest version of RAR (that is, 3.0 version) to extract, can be used in the "compression tool" download. As for the above Pkzip/pkunzip and RAR, such as the specific use of tools, can be seen in this site "DOS article" column in the "DOS commonly used compression and decompression tool use." In addition to compressing the general file, you can compress the executable file, which will make the executable file smaller. The best executable file compression tool is UPX, powerful and can be used as an essential tool.

There are also some files called image files, such as IMG files, many of them are produced with hd-copy, and of course there are other tools. The best way to extract these files is to use Undisk (which can be downloaded on this site), it can be very efficient to expand the image file, can be used as a prerequisite tool. It is best not to use tools such as hd-copy to extract these files, because this tool is not only old, but it can only expand the file to a floppy disk, very inconvenient. The Undisk mentioned earlier will be much more useful.

What if you don't know what the compressed format is for some files (especially when the extension is lost)? At this time, the use of DOS a very powerful tool GetType, its latest version is 2.60, can be downloaded in this site. It can display the information in a compressed/image/Encrypted file in very detail, and can even display all of the contents without any other software. Not only that, it can also display information in executables (including Windows files) and other files, very powerful, and supports long filenames. You can use it as an essential tool, because once you have it, it's much easier to operate.

As you know, Windows File Manager operation is very intuitive, DOS also have a lot of such tools, can be found in the "File Management" site. They are all graphically manipulated, in addition to the basic file management functions, there are many other functions, such as a self-contained file editor, you can view the contents of the compressed file, and in recent years DOS file management tools also increased support for long filenames and FAT32 features. These tools, the more practical Volkov commander and so on, their interface is good, the function is very strong, you can use them as an essential tool.

Using DOS is a natural way to deal with files and folders, so it's very important to use these files and folders very well. Commonly used file operations such as the establishment, deletion, editing, and so on, can be used with DOS commands, but also a number of enhanced tools, so as to greatly improve the efficiency of file operations. These tools can be downloaded from the "File Tools" in this site, and most of the file tools in this site support long filenames and FAT32 partitions. MS-DOS 7.10 not only uses short file names, but also uses long filenames, usually with long file name drivers and direct-operation long filenames, which are very practical and can be used as an essential tool. Please see the article in the "DOS article" section of this website.

With the development of computers, more and more people start to use it, so many things in daily life (such as writing articles, listening to music, watching images, etc.) are on the computer. So, how do you do these things in DOS? First, write the article. Dos with an edit command, you can edit multiple files and binaries, but the function is not very powerful (such as the font can not be set, etc.), you can use other specialized word processing tools to complete. These tools are famous for ms-word,cced,wps, etc., can be downloaded from the "text" tool in this site. Some people like to listen to music while typing while in DOS, of course, can also be achieved. Take Setedit as an example, this is a very powerful and practical DOS word processing software, not only has the function of word processing, but also can write articles while listening to MP3 music, how good ah! They can therefore be used as a prerequisite tool.

Finished in DOS under the paperwork, the next thing is to listen to music and look at images and so on operation. DOS to listen to music and look at the image of the software is very much, such as listening to Wav,mid,mp3 and other formats of music, functions and effects are very good (not the oldest and worst MP3 player dosamp the kind of playback effect), specific in this column "multimedia under DOS" to see. For example, QuickView, which is very small in size and powerful in function, can be used as an essential tool. Looking at the image in DOS is also very convenient, there are usually two ways, one is the command line, one is the graphical interface. To Pictview (can be downloaded in the "Graphics Software") For example, it can play more than 40 kinds of graphic formats, such as Jpg,gif,bmp,tga,ico, GIF, etc., not only fast, good quality and effect, and its volume is very small, more than 100 k! Therefore, it is entirely possible to use it as a prerequisite tool. But some image software, especially the old image software, such as NV, not only slow speed, poor playback quality, but also a large volume, so it is best not to use.

DOS also has a lot of very powerful practical software, can also be used as an essential tool. Dos software is usually very small and practical, which naturally greatly facilitates the use of everyone. such as shutdown and Poweroff commands can easily in the DOS command line to achieve soft shutdown, not only easy to operate, but also very small size, you can use them as an essential tool. There are also a number of DOS command enhancements, can greatly enhance the DOS from the external functions, such as XXCOPY,XMSDSK, etc., can be downloaded in this site. In order to facilitate the use of everyone, I produced a "DOS common tool Set", including the above types of software (such as command-line tools, drivers, System tools, disk tools, compression tools, multimedia software, etc.) the direct version of the operation, placed in the "DOS Software" section of the "DOS system", Welcome to download and use.

Because everyone's habits and hobbies are different, so each person's main operation is not the same. For example, some people like to write programs, or to compile batch files, some practical processing tools (which can be downloaded from the scripting tools in this site) can be used as an essential tool; some people like to play games, you can change some games software or simulator (can be downloaded in the "Game Software") as an essential tool. Therefore, you can also according to their own preferences to choose the necessary tools for their own. However, you should try to use the newly introduced DOS software in recent years, because these software is not only more powerful, but also support the latest computer technology (such as FAT32 partition, big hard disk, long file name, PCI/USB device, etc.). In short, as long as we are good at selecting and using DOS software, we can make DOS very powerful, let DOS play its due function.