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- Dos² (c 1989 'C'ompu-teck) is a "replacement" for DOS with some
- interesting responses to commands. Dos² was written by Brian Green with help
- from Dan E. Monk. This is our third release--version 4.89Q. Why is the third
- release being called version 4.89Q? Once you've run Dos², we think you'll
- agree that it's completely in character with the Dos² philosophy (in fact,
- we're planning on releasing version 4.5 sometime in the near future).
- The major change in Version 4.90C was in the control break handler. The
- break handler in version 5.01A was found to crash some machines when ctrl
- break was pressed instead of ctrl c. DIRTREE didn't always run properly
- in version 5.01A. That was also fixed in version 4.90C. In addition, it was
- made into a COM file instead of an EXE file at considerable reduction in size.
- The only real change from 4.89Q to version 4.90C is that the cursor has been
- funkified. The real reason for the re-release is that we found out something
- about CHKDSK that we never noticed before. If your computer has a TURBO mode,
- run DOS², and enter 'CHKDSK' twice. First in Turbo mode, then in normal mode.
- Or run DOS², and enter 'CHKDSK' twice. First in normal mode, then in Turbo
- mode. (Note:that wasn't a misprint. in order to change it the second time,
- DOS² must be restarted)
- We've run Dos² on a variety of machines, ranging from a 4.77 Mhz 8088
- generic slug to a 20 Mhz 80386 speed demon. These machines have been equipped
- with almost every type of monitor and card known to man (sorry, no text only
- cards). Dos² requires AT LEAST 86,800 bytes of free ram (Or maybe less, who
- knows?), and AT LEAST one floppy drive (it might run off cassette, but we have
- no way of testing that).
- Dos² should not be harmful to you or your computer. There are some
- alarming looking "error messages," but don't worry, there are no aliens,
- molasses, or problems reading drive Q:. All "system crashes" "Chinese
- keyboards" etc. are imaginary and temporary, and can be ended by a keypress in
- some cases, or <enter> in others. To exit Dos², enter "I love you"
- (without the quotes). If you forget, type "help" for a hint. There's another,
- undocumented way of exiting, but that's just because it got tiresome telling
- my computer it was loved every time I wanted to make a change in the program.
- The only program that can be run from Dos² is DIRTREE, although we
- plan to allow other 'C'ompu-teck products to be run as they become available.
- Attempts to run other programs are met with error messages.
- Dos² is being offered "as is" with no warrantees, either implied or
- expressed. It may or may not be suitable for your use. You may not even laugh
- at it. All we know is that we thought it was funny, but then again, we've also
- been known to watch television. Willingly.
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- Dos² can either be run just for fun, or it can be installed on an
- unsuspecting user's computer. We hope you have as much fun using this as we
- did in writing it. If you do, please register your copy by sending $10.00 to:
- 'C'ompu-teck
- 7501 N. University Suite 223
- Peoria, Il. 61614
- In addition to making us happy, registering your copy will make you eligible
- for a free upgrade from version 4.89Q to version 4.5 as soon as it becomes
- available. Registering will also put you (not toy, as our earlier
- documentation claimed) on our mailing list so we can inform you of new
- products as they are developed.
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- The following is a partial list of commands recognized by Dos². There are
- others, but I didn't want to write them down (try swearing). APPEND,
- ASSIGN, ATTRIB, BACKUP, BREAK, CD, CHCP, CHDIR, CHKDSK, CLS, COMMAND, COMP,
- COPY, CTTY, DATE, DEL, DESCARTES, DIR, DIRTREE, DISKCOMP, DISKCOPY, EDLIN,
- ERASE, EXE2BIN, EXIT, FASTOPEN, FC, FIND, FORMAT, GRAFTABL, GRAPHICS, HELP, I
- LOVE YOU (TO EXIT), JOIN, KEYB, LABEL, MD, MKDIR, MODE, NEW PAGE, NLSFUNC,
- PATH, PLEASE, PRINT, PROMPT, RD, RECOVER, REN, RENAME, REPLACE, RESTORE,
- RMDIR, SARTRE, SELECT, SET, SHARE, SORT, SUBST, SYS, TIME, TREE, TYPE, VER,
- VERIFY, VOL, XCOPY for a list of the commands, in an easier to read format,
- see commands.txt.
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- Enjoy.
-
- P.S. To run Dos², just enter "Dos²" from the DOS prompt. If you have trouble
- finding the '²' key, you can run the batch file by typing "Crazy". The word,
- not the method.
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