Running MS-DOS 20th Anniversary Edition (Bpg-Other) | 
| Author: Van Wolverton
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 829662
Media: Paperback
Edition: 20 Anv Sub
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.6
ISBN: 0735618127
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780735618121
Publication Date: August 17, 2002
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Condition: Textbook 20th Anniversary Edition. CD NOT INCLUDED. Light dirt, wear, fading, or curling of cover or spine. Cover is curling upward and will not close completely. Cover has used book stickers or residue. Good binding. NO apparent loose pages. NO apparent missing pages. May have unnoticed missing pages, as this is a USED book and pages get lost easily. Light staining or wrinkling from liquid damage. Does not affect the text. No apparent writing or highlighting. bams All of our books are Legally copy righted US student editions
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Product Description
Get the book that set the standard for all other MS-DOS books -- now celebrating its 20th anniversary! "Running MS-DOS" is the all-time bestselling guide to the operating system that changed personal computing history. Get the all-time bestselling guide to the operating system that made personal computing history. This special commemorative edition of RUNNING MS-DOS celebrates 20 years as the PC user's choice for understanding and using MS-DOS. Featuring Van Wolverton's genial, down-to-earth style and lucid explanations, this one-stop guide demystifies MS-DOS functions and commands for the everyday user looking to optimize PC performance. Topics include managing files, disks, and devices; using the Shell; editing text files; protecting your system from damage and loss; tailoring DOS to your specific needs; and creating your own commands and batch files. This 20-year edition is loaded with skill-building exercises and hundreds of helpful screenshots, illustrations, and examples.
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 Proof that marketing can save bad products November 11, 2003
4 out of 32 found this review helpful
Years ago, Billy Gates and his merry band of programmers hacked a CPM clone from Seattle Computer Systems into the first version of PC-DOS. Later on, they diverged from IBM (as they would again in the future) and came up with MS-DOS. We've been stuck with this abomination ever since. It's now 2003, and the technically challenged marketing MBAs at Micro$oft have decided to publish yet another book on DOS. It's bad enough that DOS is sadly lacking in scripting capabilities (especially when compared to Unix shells like bash or cshell). For generations, engineers have had to jump through syntatic hoops just to do fairly pedestrian scripting tasks. To add insult to injury, Micro$oft has insisted on keeping DOS alive. Perhaps they think that they'll be able to squeeze a few more bucks out of their old clunker; just like those people who own the rights to the Elvis songs. I don't care what the marketing disinformation from M$ claims, no one uses DOS if they can avoid it. The salient question in this case is not "is this a good book?" The question is "why in god's name would you still want to publish such a book?" You could be a complete nimrod and buy this book ... what do I care. It's your money.
 Happy Anniversary August 13, 2002
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
14 years ago when I started in this industry DOS 3.2 was the Operating system I learned on and from there worked all the way up the Microsoft's final; release DOS 6.22. While I no longer used the OS I was impressed by the depth and diversity of this book. Covering just over 600 pages, 400 of which breakdown the 6.22 operating system. Taking you from the DIR, COPY and PRINT commands to the TREE, XCOPY and DEL commands. You have navigation tips and tricks to help you along the way and overall every command seems to be covered. Included in the learning and review process are screen shots so you can see what happens with the command. Finally the is 3 Appendices included, A is for overview of installation with DOS 3, 4 and 5. B is for the 150 plus term glossary and C is the 160 page command reference including syntax and examples. While most people have moved on this book can be a handy reference for future needs.
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