1. jokes and dosshell
Hi guys!
Don't panic!...i'm not going to tell more jokes!:(
Few days ago i posted a terrible joke...you shall
understand that it was a *literal translation* from spanish
and that's the problem(there was a vocabulary error,sorry!
instead of 'packages' it should had been 'baggage' or
'valise')
Anyway,i don't think that is quite gentle to criticize so
scoffingly someone who is doing huge *efforts* trying to make
himself clear to others!.....
---------> let's forget it:)
Yesterday i was looking my MS-DOS 6.20 manual and there's a page
that makes reference to a command called 'dosshell'.I tried in many
computers to use this command but always looms up the same message:
bad command or parameter
I decided to seek the compressed dosshell.ex_ file in the original
floppys...but it doesn't exist! ? :|
It might be a Microsoft 'prank'?
( P.D: of course I have the legal and original disks! )
Regards,
Luis
2. Re: jokes and dosshell
Luis,
I think that dosshell only comes with IBM PC DOS. Someone please
correct me if this is incorrect. Check out http://www.stockpile.com/
for some available MS-DOS compatible managers.
Billy Phipps
billy.phipps at florsheim.com
---CAMPOS ARRIBAS- LUIS RAUL <95203695 at XAEE.UB.ES> wrote:
>
> Hi guys!
>
> Don't panic!...i'm not going to tell more jokes!:(
> Few days ago i posted a terrible joke...you shall
> understand that it was a *literal translation* from spanish
> and that's the problem(there was a vocabulary error,sorry!
> instead of 'packages' it should had been 'baggage' or
> 'valise')
> Anyway,i don't think that is quite gentle to criticize so
> scoffingly someone who is doing huge *efforts* trying to make
> himself clear to others!.....
>
> ---------> let's forget it:)
>
> Yesterday i was looking my MS-DOS 6.20 manual and there's a page
> that makes reference to a command called 'dosshell'.I tried in many
> computers to use this command but always looms up the same message:
>
> bad command or parameter
>
> I decided to seek the compressed dosshell.ex_ file in the original
> floppys...but it doesn't exist! ? :|
> It might be a Microsoft 'prank'?
>
> ( P.D: of course I have the legal and original disks! )
>
> Regards,
> Luis
>
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3. Re: jokes and dosshell
- Posted by MAP <ddhinc at ALA.NET>
May 05, 1998
CAMPOS ARRIBAS- LUIS RAUL wrote:
>
> Hi guys!
>
> Don't panic!...i'm not going to tell more jokes!:(
> Few days ago i posted a terrible joke...you shall
> understand that it was a *literal translation* from spanish
> and that's the problem(there was a vocabulary error,sorry!
> instead of 'packages' it should had been 'baggage' or
> 'valise')
> Anyway,i don't think that is quite gentle to criticize so
> scoffingly someone who is doing huge *efforts* trying to make
> himself clear to others!.....
>
> ---------> let's forget it:)
>
> Yesterday i was looking my MS-DOS 6.20 manual and there's a page
> that makes reference to a command called 'dosshell'.I tried in many
> computers to use this command but always looms up the same message:
>
> bad command or parameter
>
> I decided to seek the compressed dosshell.ex_ file in the original
> floppys...but it doesn't exist! ? :|
> It might be a Microsoft 'prank'?
>
> ( P.D: of course I have the legal and original disks! )
>
> Regards,
> Luis
Luis,
Dosshell originally appeared on MS-Dos 4.0, and for some reason I had
thought it never made it into newer versions, but it did. I found
a reference that said in DOS Version 6 this program is stored on the
"DOS supplemental disk". If the disks you have are the OEM disks
that came with the computer, it's possible that the supplement disk
was not included.
Christopher D. Hickman
4. Re: jokes and dosshell
Billy Phipps wrote:
>
> Luis,
> I think that dosshell only comes with IBM PC DOS. Someone please
> correct me if this is incorrect. Check out http://www.stockpile.com/
> for some available MS-DOS compatible managers.
>
> Billy Phipps
> billy.phipps at florsheim.com
>
> ---CAMPOS ARRIBAS- LUIS RAUL <95203695 at XAEE.UB.ES> wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys!
<snip>
> > Yesterday i was looking my MS-DOS 6.20 manual and there's a page
> > that makes reference to a command called 'dosshell'.I tried in many
> > computers to use this command but always looms up the same message:
> >
> > bad command or parameter
> >
> > I decided to seek the compressed dosshell.ex_ file in the original
> > floppys...but it doesn't exist! ? :|
> > It might be a Microsoft 'prank'?
> >
> > ( P.D: of course I have the legal and original disks! )
> >
> > Regards,
> > Luis
> >
>
> _________________________________________________________
> DO YOU YAHOO!?
> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
I was in MS_DOS 4.x and 5.x, I rember quite clearly using it.
however MS was adding and subtracting all kinds of things in 6.x do to
law suits etc.
also OEM versions wer often 'adjusted' to include the OEM's pet
little programs and occasionaly some thing non-criticle got left out
(especially if the OEM felt it didn't apply to the computer they were
selling, and could cut back on the number of floppies they had to
ship per computer by leaving out a couple 'not needed' items)
usually with notice you could get the missing parts from thier or MS's
bbs this OEM version thing where parts are left out happens even more
with windows(shipped on floppy), if the oem isn't shipping a printer
or modem you must obviously not need any printer or modem drivers or
anything
requiring them. And of course any such you buy will have everything you
need.
<insert sarcasm last two lines>
Kasey
5. Re: jokes and dosshell
At 04:32 PM 5/5/98 +0000, Luis wrote:
> Yesterday i was looking my MS-DOS 6.20 manual and there's a page
> that makes reference to a command called 'dosshell'.
My memory isn't what it used to be, but I think the dosshell
was a text-mode "file manager" sort of thing. You could
copy, move, delete, run programs.
If you don't have it, don't worry. You're not missing much.
If you really want something like dosshell, you could write one
in Euphoria fairly easily.
Irv
6. Re: jokes and dosshell
>Dosshell originally appeared on MS-Dos 4.0, and for some reason I had
>thought it never made it into newer versions, but it did. I found
>a reference that said in DOS Version 6 this program is stored on the
>"DOS supplemental disk". If the disks you have are the OEM disks
>that came with the computer, it's possible that the supplement disk
>was not included.
My DOS 6.22 (OEM) disk set consists of 4 disks. Disk #4 is the "supplemental
disk", it has it's own install program (a .bat file).
Regards,
Daniel Berstein.
7. Re: jokes and dosshell
- Posted by Arthur Adamson <euclid at ISOC.NET>
May 05, 1998
-
Last edited May 06, 1998
At 04:13 PM 5/6/98 -0300, you wrote:
>>Dosshell originally appeared on MS-Dos 4.0, and for some reason I had
>>thought it never made it into newer versions, but it did. I found
>>a reference that said in DOS Version 6 this program is stored on the
>>"DOS supplemental disk". If the disks you have are the OEM disks
>>that came with the computer, it's possible that the supplement disk
>>was not included.
>
>
>My DOS 6.22 (OEM) disk set consists of 4 disks. Disk #4 is the "supplemental
>disk", it has it's own install program (a .bat file).
>
>Regards,
> Daniel Berstein.
A modest shareware prog called ds421b is available in several
places. It is a superior "dosshell" which I have used for years. I can dig
up a url if you can't and are interested. Bye, Art
Arthur P. Adamson, The Engine Man, euclid at isoc.net
8. Re: jokes and dosshell
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> At 04:32 PM 5/5/98 +0000, Luis wrote:
>
> > Yesterday i was looking my MS-DOS 6.20 manual and there's a page
> > that makes reference to a command called 'dosshell'.
>
> My memory isn't what it used to be, but I think the dosshell
> was a text-mode "file manager" sort of thing. You could
> copy, move, delete, run programs.
> If you don't have it, don't worry. You're not missing much.
> If you really want something like dosshell, you could write one
> in Euphoria fairly easily.
>
> Irv
>
Oh my! i don't have spare time to write down a file manager in
Euphoria!Right now i'm going to begin my final exams at the college
(pharmacy) and i haven't open a book yet! ?:O
I have the Norton commander and i think that it's
a wonderfull file manager.Actually i'm working in my PUWT (if you have
tested my code please send me any suggestions!:) an i'm trying to
give mouse support to Daniel Berstein's menu_eng.e....Yeah!i know that
David Cuny created it's great text_gui( 100% stunning ) and it's
incredeable, but it's too big if you only want to display a single pop
up window in your program!
Regards,
Luis Campos
9. Re: jokes and dosshell
- Posted by Mike Fowler <mike.fowler at NELSUN.GEN.NZ>
May 07, 1998
-
Last edited May 08, 1998
>Luis,
>I think that dosshell only comes with IBM PC DOS. Someone please
>correct me if this is incorrect. Check out http://www.stockpile.com/
>for some available MS-DOS compatible managers.
>
>
>Billy Phipps
>billy.phipps at florsheim.com
T can remember dosshell on our 8086 when it had MS-DOS 5... they might have
scrubbed it by the time they got to 6.x maybe?
Mike Fowler - mike.fowler at nelsun.gen.nz
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