4DOS (was: Re: Automating Bookshare)

[Tony Baechler]

Hi, 4DOS is still around but unsupported.  It runs under Win9X and XP, 
but for XP 4NT is probably better.  I assume it would run in dosemu 
under Linux but I haven't tested.  I don't know about FreeDOS.  JP 
Software stopped developing it many years ago but some in Bulgaria took 
over development.  I don't know if it's open source or not, but 
apparently the source was released by JP Software.  Look here: 
http://4dos.hit.bg/  Also, you can still get Wordperfect for DOS but you 
have to buy it.  http://wpdos.org/  I verified that WP for DOS works 
fine with Speakup.

Gaijin wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:53:59PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:
>   
>> That's one of those things I hate about Microsoft as well. I have a program 
>> that records TV for me off a tuner card, and I'd like to run something as 
>> the command after the recording finishes that would convert the mpeg-2 video 
>> into .wav or some other audio. I don't think I could find a script for 
>> Windows, much less Linux, that would convert all the .mpg's in one folder to 
>> .wav's in another and then delete the original video files.
>>     
> :End-Quote:
>
> 	If all you need is a more powerful kind of DOS, you might
> look into JP Software's 4DOS.  They used to have a version of it for
> Win95, but that was the last time I looked.  Haven't a clue what they
> have now, but the old 4DOS added some 70 batch commands to the mix with
> a replacement for COMMAND.COM.  Made the DOS command line almost as
> powerful as bash.
>
> 			Michael
>
>
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