Mainly just curious. I myself haven't really come across anything all that odd unfortunately. Long maybe, like the Win98 boot floppies and such, but nothing really crazy or anything. I do know there ...

I posted this in the Software Colloquium, and it got a whopping zero replies, so it must be the sort of high-end technical voodoo that didn't belong there (I wasn't aware that a batch file was that ...

Since I made the leap a few months ago from writing on a CP/M machine to writing on an MS-DOS machine, I`ve been in awe of how complex MS-DOS sometimes is. I turned on the Kaypro 4 the other day, and ...

What to know before you dig into the startup areas Back in the days of DOS, if a program was automatically loading when a computer started up, there were only two places that the program could have ...

Starting with DOS 6, there were multiple startup options for the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. The user could bypass them, decide which lines to execute or set up multiple configurations for ...

In this example, the OPTIONS statement sets some SAS system options, and the LIBNAME statement assigns a libref. Note: Some SAS system options can be specified only when you invoke SAS. These system ...