Collection of 4DOS links
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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 Plugins
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4DOS Resources
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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.
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Wikipedia on
4DOS The
english Wikipedia entry for 4DOS
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Wikipedia on
4DOS The
(less informative) german Wikipedia entry for 4DOS
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Club DR-DOS Wiki on 4DOS
DR-DOS and FreeDOS user's club information on usimg 4DOS
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JP Software's Texts
Link to former reference texts on JP Software's server.
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Software Support Forum JP Software
support forum for their current products. 4NT and 4DOS help may be
available from users here.
- Computer Solutions
Bezugsquelle f�r 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 :-)
- Compuserve Forum
Former (up to 1999) official support for JP Software. Gone
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Compuserve archive
Archive files from JP Software's support forum on Compuserve
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Usenet Group
4DOS discussions and help
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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.
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File collections
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Computerworld
4DOS related files
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FAQTS
4DOS entries at the FAQTS knowledge base
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Actrix
4DOS related files
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BBS Achives
4DOS related files from a FIDO BBS network
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Brado BBS
4DOS files of a school BBS
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Bookcase
4DOS related files. 4DOS batches to work with Desqview on this
page
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Cavazza
Italian site with a 4DOS FAQ and a small
file collection
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FileLibrary
4DOS related files. Dead?
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ComputerWorld
4DOS related files
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Garbo
Archives
4DOS related files from the Garbo collection
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Metropoli
4DOS related files
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Simtel
4DOS related files and batches. Probably the oldest, biggest and most
useful 4DOS file collection. You now must use the search box at the top
right of their pages or the much faster
FTP mirror access..
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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
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Personal Websites
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I use alphabetical ordering here:
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Andrei and Yuri
A few batches and
tips
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Rainer Bahr
Home of DescExt and DescExp. These are Windows Explorer extensions to
show the contents of a descript.ion file
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Michael Bednarek
4DOS btms, aliases and description files for musical scores.
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Joe Caverly
4DOS and TCC Tricks, plug-ins.
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Norman
L. DeForest
4DOS tips
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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! Several plug-ins for Take Command
here.
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Eric Farris
A stab at "What is 4DOS?" plus assorted general DOS info :-)
Now only at
Wayback Machine.
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Vincent E. Fatica
Very prolific writer of plug-ins found
here.
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Scott A. Mintz
An event-oriented Take Command plug-in. No homepage
found.
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Dewi Morgan
3 btms and download of ndosutil.zip / unixemu.zip
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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard A frequently given answer to
the question "What is 4DOS?"
- Federico C.
Romano A Take
Command plug-in called FEDUTILS. No homepage found.
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G�nter Sch�ttiger
Eine kleine Einf�hrung in 4DOS (deutsch, 1998 mit Aktualisierungen)
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Michael L.
Smith
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.
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Kristofer Sweger
Ansiplus and the 4DOS command shell. Kristofer is the author of ANSIPLUS,
a powerful replacement for ANSI.SYS
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Vladimir Veytsel
samples of 4DOS batch scripting techniques along with several useful
fully-functional scripts.
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Mark Watkins
Some interesting btms (crypto.btm, pack'em.btm, setcolor.btm,
delaged.btm, and more)
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User-supplied plugins were
introduced with version 7.00 of 4NT. There is a special
Plugin page
for them on JP-Software's site. I do not show the available plugins here
any more, because of frequent changes of their contents.
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