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ppunk@damthatspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk) wrote:

> Ahem, may i be so blunt as to ask you just _what_ DOS you use?
>
> MS-DOS?
> 4DOS?
> DR-DOS?
> NDOS?
> FreeDOS?
> Novell DOS?
> IBM DOS?
> PC DOS?
> Caldera DOS?
>
> Those pretty much all the DOS'es i can think of. Perhaps there are more?

PTS DOS

I do not use it, but in a test of different DOSes it was the fastest
one (i know, that depends on what you test...) - and the latest
version i know supports VFAT16 with long file names. Maybe there is
already one that supports FAT32.

Ob-DosScreen:

        __________________________________________________________
       /                                                         /|
      /   ---------------------------------------------------   / |
     /                                                         /  |
    /   ---------------------------------------------------   /   |
   /                                                         /    |
  /   ----------------------------------------------------  /     |
 /_________________________________________________________/      |
 |  _____________________________________________________  |      |
 | |A:\>ls -la                                           | |      |
 | |Bad command or file name. Go stand in the corner.    | |      |
 | |A:\>win                                              | |      |
 | |Bad command or file name. Go stand in the corner.    | |      |
 | |A:\>startx                                           | |      |
 | |Bad command or file name. Go stand in the corner.    | |      |
 | |A:\>prompt                                           | |      |
 | |A>dir                                                | |      |
 | |Disk in drive A is BOOTDISK                          | |      |
 | |Disk serial number: FADE-D1ED                        | |      |
 | |Listing A:\                                          | |     /
 | |                                                     | |    /
 | |File not found                                       | |   /
 | |a>                                                   | |  /
 | |_____________________________________________________| | /
 |_________________________________________________________|/
  
Michael