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The name for Microsft's implementation of the Disk Operating System.

The name for Microsft's implementation of the Disk Operating System. Often referred to as just "DOS," which is also an acronym for Denial of Service.

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SMB connection to MS-DOS server from Windows 10 1809+ fails

We need to interface with a legacy system that run MS DOS 6.22, with a TCP/IP stack and wg1049.exe to create a SMB server (more or less as described on this site). Enabling SMB1.0 on our Windows system we could connect to this server swimmingly, but…
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If Service Exists Condition

How would you check is a service exists and if so do some operation?
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Standardising on a single Windows Scripting Language

I wasn't quite sure whether this would be better on StackOverflow or not, feel free to move it if you think it's more appropriate there. Anyway on to the question... The Situation We currently have a mish-mash of VBScript, DOS batch files and a…
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Q: How Robycopy deals with pointers to directories (short-cuts)

For example, in the statement below robocopy %src% %target% copy:DATSO the parameter %src% may be a pointer to a directory. In my case, Robocopy FAILED TO COPY the content the pointer is pointing to. In case above %src% is a shortcut to directory…
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Find the users of Active Directory global group?

I am using following command to get the users of Active Directory Global Group. dsquery group -name "Groupname" |dsget group -members But, this is piped command and it's not working in Visual Studio, Please suggest me any alternative DOS command…
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How to write a dos batch script to create a folder structure?

I would like to be able to have a dos batch script that I could utilize to create a specific folder structure below what ever directory I may be in at any given time. The specific folder structure that I need is: [Directory:\]…
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How do I change the prompt of Windows commandline permanently?

I use Prompt command to temporarily change the Windows command prompt's inline prefix. So instead of current directory, I choose it to display something like current time and the $ sign. But when I close the command window, my preference goes too.…
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Is it possible to get Samba automatically convert linebreaks in files from dos to unix?

I have a shared over samba directory which i access from my windows development box. Problem is that when i create and edit files they are saved with dos linebreaks. Is there any way to configure samba to do automatic translation for all text files?…
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Netbios binding in server 2008

I am creating a middle ground server as a funnel point for our regular network to talk to our legacy network, which is running Lantastic 8.0/8.1 on MS Dos 6.1. To do so, I need to install Netbios, but I have two NIC's installed, and I need to bind…
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Need to send keystrokes to DOS app from Windows at idle logout

I am supporting a legacy Paradox 4.5 for DOS system. Our users connect to a single terminal server (Windows Server 2003) to run Paradox. We frequently need to boot everyone out of the system. Our Paradox Admin will attach to each remote desktop…
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How to do a "for" with multi operations in dos batch

I need to ZIP all files Bak inside a folder and subfolders, and at the end of each zipping job, delete the bak file. I wrote something like this, but it don't works: for /F %%f in ('dir /s /b *.bak') do goto=1 :1 "7za.exe" a -t7z -mx3…
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How to use MS DOS-defined aliases in Powershell

I have some aliases that are defined in MS Dos style, how can I invoke those from Powershell? When I type "alias" from Powershell prompt, I can see my aliases defined there but when I try to call them by just typing their names, Powershell complains…
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Windows Server 2003 Sharing files to DOS

I'm having situation like this: I have a machine, whitch uses MS-DOS to get data how to build things and so on. I Have installed TCP/IP client, drivers for network card and other stuff required to use TCP. My goal that that MS-DOS machine can reach…
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Dos find command?

Are there any utility find commands that you can download and use in DOS which match the UNIX find command?
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Flash ROM from USB drive with DOS?

My home server PC has a P4 processor. Windows seems unable to control the processor speed, so the processor heats up and the PC fan is running at full speed all day. The event log says there is a known issue with the firmware, and I should flash…
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