Q. What is a DOS shell? A. DOS, which stands for disk operating system, is a program that performs most of the necessary housekeeping functions on your disk. These include organizing, locating, moving ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I am seeking help with getting older PC legacy games to run under Windows 10. I’m talking really old ones — ...

Q. I have used an accounting system for many years that is based on DOS. I presently am using Windows 98 SE, and everything works fine. However, I understand that the newer XP Microsoft Windows ...

A friend threw this at me, he heard it on *two* talk shows, and one was a computer talk show. The computer person said XP was just an advanced DOS shell. The logic was that since you can run even old ...

Bash is fairly easy to install, but using it is another matter. Here are some commands to help IT pros dip their toes in Bash. I have written quite a bit lately about the Bash shell that exists within ...

I'm going to be playing with a whole load of different shells.. I figured I'd ask to see if anyone has familiarity with shells and would know if a 4dos-like shell existed. The basic CLI is.. better ...