4DOS (was: Re: Automating Bookshare)

[Marcel Oats]

Hi, Take Command is the software for XP.  You're right, it's not 
supported anymore, which is a pity.
Marcel
At 09:54 p.m. 22/02/2008, you wrote:
>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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