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Collection  of 4DOS links

Here I've collected links to 4DOS and 4DOS batch programming related material: Usenet groups, file collections, personal web pages...

These pages are simply in alphabetical order. No judgement about their content or ranling is intended here.

Links that seem to be dead.

Topics:

  4DOS Resources       File collections       Personal Websites  

  4NT Plug-Ins     

4DOS Resources

• JP Software                 Home of 4NT, Take Command, and the freeware command processors 4DOS, 4OS2 and the defunct TC32 and TC16. The site has lately been thoroughly redesigned. You can study many versions of their old, in some respects more informative site here.
• JP Software's Texts         Link to former reference texts on JP Software's server.
• Computer Solutions          Bezugsquelle für die (veraltete) deutsche 4DOS Version 5.51(D). This site is gone. If anybody still has a german version of old 4DOS, I'd like to see it :-)
• Software Support Group      Join the (old) official support forum of JP Software
• New Software Support        JP Software seems to prepare to switch from the old (above) Lyris powered forum to a new bbBOARD powered forum. Go here for details.
• Compuserve Forum            Former (up to 1999) official support for JP Software. Gone
• Compuserve archive          Archive files from JP Software's support forum  on Compuserve
• Usenet Group                4DOS discussions and help
• FIDO Archives               Yes, the die-hards of FIDO net are still alive (though barely). You can read the proceedings of the Fidomail 4dos echo  (and others) here.
• Wikipedia                   4DOS entry in Wikipedia - could use some expansion

File collections

• Computerworld              4DOS related files
• FAQTS                      4DOS entries at the FAQTS knowledge base
• Simtel                     4DOS related files and batches. Probably the oldest, biggest and most useful 4DOS file collection
• Actrix                     4DOS related files
• BBS2Web                    4DOS related files from a FIDO BBS network
• Brado BBS                  4DOS files of a school BBS
• Bookcase                   4DOS related files. 4DOS batches to work with Desqview on this page
• Cavazza                    Italian site with a 4DOS FAQ and a small file collection
• FileLibrary                4DOS related files
• Chicago Sun-Times          4DOS related files
• Execnet                    4DOS related files
• Garbo Archives             4DOS related files from the Garbo collection
• Metropoli                  4DOS related files
• PC Mag                     4DOS related files
• ZCPR33                     Latest version (3.3) of ZCPR. ZCPR was to CP/M  what 4DOS is to DOS. Interestingly written by Richard Conn, no relative of and unbeknownst to 4DOS author Rex Conn :-) . Of historical interest only in this context

Personal Websites

• Andrei and Yuri             A few batches and tips
• Rainer Bahr                 Home of DescExt and DescExp. These are Windows Explorer extensions to show the contents of a dscript.ion file
• Michael Bednarek            4DOS btms, aliases and description files for musical scores.
• Norman L. DeForest          A few 4DOS tips
• Charles Dye                 Several batches and 4DOS-related stuff, especially his 4DOS.HLP, which is a proofread and amended version of the original 4DOS.HLP V7.50. You should get this! There's also a link page here. Alternate site here.
• Eric Farris                 A stab at "What is 4DOS?" plus assorted general DOS info :-) Now at Wayback Machine.
• Vincent E. Fatica           From one of his postings in the support group: If anyone's interested ... nearly a year ago I wrote and built
  4NTHERE.DLL, a context menu handler to create a "4NTHere" prompt in the
  customary places as well as places you can't do with the Shell\Verb
  mechanism, namely, on the context menu for drive and folder backgrounds
  (including the desktop's background ... i.e., right-click on the
  desktop). It has worked flawlessly (only tested on XP) and I now
  couldn't live without it. It should work without fuss if you put it in
  the same place 4NT.EXE is and register it with

  regsvr32 drive:\path\4nthere.dll
   

• Dewi Morgan                 3 btms and download of ndosutil.zip / unixemu.zip
• Jonathan de Boyne Pollard   A frequently given answer to the question "What is 4DOS?"
• Günter Schättiger           Eine kleine Einführung in 4DOS (deutsch, 1998 mit Aktualisierungen)
• Michael L. Smith 1          His new and very active site: very good 4DOS related links and materials like reviews, how-tos, links, 4DOS-aware programs etc. Also batch examples, menu systems, alias collections. A must.
• Michael L. Smith 2          His old site with much of the above. This site was the only other fan site that JP Software linked to from their official pages. 
• Kristofer Sweger            Ansiplus and the 4DOS command shell. Kristofer is the author of ANSIPLUS, a powerful replacement for ANSI.SYS
• Vladimir Veytsel            samples of 4DOS batch scripting techniques along with several useful fully-functional scripts. 
• Mark Watkins                Some interesting btms (crypto.btm, pack'em.btm, setcolor.btm, delaged.btm, and more)
• Arttu Ylärakkola            Batches to use in conjunction with MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator

4NT Plug-Ins

User-supplied plug-ins were introduced with version 7.00 of 4NT. There is a special plug-in page for them on JP-Software's site. I will show the available plug-ins here, with alternate download sites and additional info.

Plug-in descriptions are taken from the JP Software site or from the author's descriptions. Plug-in authors are welcome to contact me with additional info they want displayed here. 

• 4AUTOTRAY     Automatic tray minimization. - by Vincent. E. Fatica
  • Author's Homepage   Alternative Download
• 4CONSOLE      Console related functions; does not work with TCMD.  - by Vincent. E. Fatica
  • Author's Homepage   Alternative Download
• 4UTILS        Various command processor/batch related utilities, including regular expression search/replace and console utilities. - by Vincent. E. Fatica
  • Author's Homepage   Alternative Download
• SYSUTILS      Various system related utilities, including registry, process, and window functions. - by Vincent. E. Fatica
  • Author's Homepage   Alternative Download
• Histword      Insert words or lines from the history list in the current command line. (Requires 4NT or Take Command version 8.0.)
  • Author's Homepage   Alternative Download
• VFPLUGINS     Get all of the plugins by V. E. Fatica together
  • Author's Homepage   Alternative Download
• EVENTUTILS    Internal commands and variable functions to create, wait for or signal a Windows event. - by Scott A. Mintz
   

• FEDUTILS      A collection of Calendar, Conversion, Encryption, System, and String functions. - by Federico C. Romano

• Alternative Download

• RB_UTILS      Miscellaneous 4NT/TCMD utilities, including date and time validation functions.  - by Roger Byrne
  • Alternative Download
• QuickCommand  plug-in to provide automatic completion of command names as you type them.  It is only necessary to type enough letters of the command name to uniquely identify it, and the plug-in then completes the name and adds a trailing space ready for you to start entering the command's parameters.  - by Roger Byrne
• 4Perly        Implements a IPERL command and an @IPERL[] function using Activestate PerlEz.dll (Requires Activestate Perl 5.8 or later installed) - by Fernando Madruga
• 4Exif         Implements @EXIFDATETIMETAKEN to display the date the image was taken in the YYYY-MM-DD HH.MM.SS format - by Fernando Madruga

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