Please read this text file with a non-proportional font like Courier etc. Reading plain text files with a proportional font destroys the ASCII art! ! The fact that you are reading this in the first place demonstrates that ! you are a "hard-core" super-power-user who believes that fancy GUI help ! files are for "namby-pamby" mouse-addicted beginners who think you need ! exact change to get onto a PCI bus. Plain ASCII text files, that's what ! real hackers use for documentation. So, here it is. _______________________ _____________ ___________________________ ___ __ \_ __ \_ ___/ ___ __ \_ / / /__ /___ ____/__ /__ / __ / / / / / /____ \ __ /_/ / / / /__ / __ __/ __ /__ / _ /_/ // /_/ /____/ / _ _, _// /_/ / _ /___ /___ _ /__/_/ /_____/ \____/ /____/ /_/ |_| \____/ /_____/_____/ /____(_) Dear dyDOSaur, welcome to LZ-/PC-/EDR-/PTS-/ROM-/FreeDOS/4DOS/FM bootdsk! It contains Da Best DOS kernels, shell and file manager (FM) on Earth ;-G Most products like LZ-DOS, 4DOS, FM, DOSLFN, JE-drivers are free for both personal and commercial usage. Others like EDR-DOS, ROM-DOS, AEFDISK, the IFS driver and UHARC may not be used commercially. PC-DOS v7.1 is present in the IBM ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit (MIGR-53564) which can freely be downloaded, starting at http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/sgstk.html. PTS-DOS 32 can be ordered for just $19.95 at http://www.phystechsoft.ru/. FreeDOS is free as long as you adhere to all the requirements of the GPL. Many free UNRAR versions are available at http://rarlabs.com/rar_add.htm. To create a self-extractable floppy image, unRAR the SFX*.RAR archive and COPY /B SFX14436.EXE+COMBOOTF.IMA COMBOOTF.EXE This is for DOS and W9x. For NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista, replace SFX14436.EXE with SFX144NT.EXE (you will also need to install the fdrawcmd.sys driver; see http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/). If you prefer using a GUI and do not mind a free registration, use http://shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop instead. (NOTE: The SFX and ISO stubs are changed for the current 82-track image!) To create an ISO-image for a bootable CD - unRAR the ISO*.RAR archive and COPY /B ISOHEAD.DAT+COMBOOTF.IMA+ISOTRAIL.DAT COMBOOTF.ISO For an Unix-like operating system, this can be done in the following way: cat ISOHEAD.DAT COMBOOTF.IMA ISOTRAIL.DAT > COMBOOTF.ISO If you have a real floppy, the floppy image can be copied to it this way: Linux: fdformat /dev/fd0h1476 dd bs=18k if=COMBOOTF.IMA of=/dev/fd0h1476 FreeBSD: fdformat -f 1476 fd0 dd bs=18k if=COMBOOTF.IMA of=/dev/fd0 Minimum system requirements: 32 MB of RAM (for cache + RAM disk + UHARC). Note: No support or warranty is offered for the disk: you're on your own! E.g no USB driver works everywhere; that's why there are so many of them. A beginner can easily destroy his/her data with these powerful tools, but as a power user, you surely know what you're doing, don't you? Who's who: LZ-DOS is a 100% µ$-D0$ 7.10-compatible DOS kernel; see http://dos.nm.ru/ FORDOS is Da Best COMMAND.COM for DOS by JP Software - http://4dos.hit.bg AEFDSK is Da Best FDSK+FORMAT for DOS by Daniel Nagy, http://aefdisk.com/ UMBPCI is Da Best UMB manager for DOS by Uwe Sieber, http://uwe-sieber.de JEM386 is Da Best EMS manager for DOS by "Japheth", http://www.japheth.de DOSLFN is Da Best LFN manager for DOS by Henrik Haftmann, and Jason Hood* SHSUCD is Da Best CD extender for DOS by Prof. John McCoy and Jason Hood* XMSDSK is Da Best XMS RAM disk driver for DOS by Franck Uberto, Grenoble. *XMGR* is Da Best XMS3 driver for DOS by J.Ellis, http://mdgx.com/drv.htm *UIDE* is Da Best UDMA HDD+DVD driver by J.Ellis, http://mdgx.com/drv.htm MKEYBD is Da Best DOS keybrd driver by Tom Ehlert http://drivesnapshot.de USBDOS is Da Best USB driver set | *J. Hood, http://geocities.com/jadoxa/ DOSFNT is Da Best DOS loader of VGA font files by T. Blader in Wisconsin. PC-DOS is Da Best DOS kernel with LBA/FAT32 support, running even on 8086 FREDOS is Da Best DOS kernel with open source code licensed under the GPL EDRDOS is Da Best DOS kernel with open source code (better than FreeDOS!) PTSDOS is Da Best DOS kernel for embedded, space, military or nuclear use ROMDOS is Da Best DOS kernel for use off ROM and can support LFN natively VCTRIA is Da Best DOS tool for hard drive maintenance by Sergei Kazanskij IFSDRV is Da Best Installable File System (NFTS/ext2/ext3) driver for DOS UHARC is Da Best archiver by Uwe Herklotz in Chemnitz (Karl-Marx-Stadt) FM is Da Best file manager for DOS written by AirSoft, Bulgaria. Hit: H (help) to see some key combinations; the undocumented keys are: {Enter} to select files {Space} to select/deselect files {Tab} or {Right Arrow} to edit file name/date/time. In this mode: {Left Arrow} or {Right Arrow} to move in a field {Tab} or Shift-{Tab} to move to next/previous field +/- (grey) to enter/leave files/directories. In the file browser: Arrow keys and {PgUp}/{PgDn} to move through the file {Home} to go to the start of the current line {End} to go to the end of the current line Ctrl-{Home} to go to the start of the file Ctrl-{End} to go to the end of the file Ctrl-{Left Arrow} to go 10 columns to the left Ctrl-{Right Arrow} to go 10 columns to the right H to enter/leave hex mode Alt-B/Alt-E to mark beginning/end Alt-W to write the marked part to a file F to find a string; {Tab} toggles ASCII/HEX in hex mode N to find the next occurrence of the same string E to edit the file, even in hex mode. In the text editor: Arrows and {PgUp}/{PgDn} to move through the file {Home} to go to the start of the current line {End} to go to the end of the current line Ctrl-Y to yank a line Ctrl-E to delete line from cursor to end Ctrl-O to leave/enter auto-indent mode: (new line indent = above line indent) {Ins} to toggle between insert/replace mode Ctrl-{Left Arrow} to go one word backward Ctrl-{Right Arrow} to go one word forward Ctrl-{Home} to go to the first line of the screen Ctrl-{End} to go to the last line of the screen Ctrl-{PgUp} to go to the first line of the file Ctrl-{PgDn} to go to the last line of the file F2 to save the file F5 to print the file {Esc} to exit the editor; prompts if file changed {Enter} to save, {Esc} to discard changes In the hex (sector) editor: {Tab} to toggle between HEX and ASCII {Esc} to exit (prompts if sector changed) In the disk (directory) editor: {Tab}/Shift-{Tab} to go one field forth/back {Home} to go to the start of the current field {End} to go to the end of the current field Ctrl-{Home} to go to the first dir. entry of the screen Ctrl-{End} to go to the last dir. entry of the screen Ctrl-{PgUp} to go to the first entry of the directory Ctrl-{PgDn} to go to last first entry of the directory {Esc} to exit the editor; prompts if directory changed: {Enter} to save, {Esc} to discard changes Happy DOSage! ;-G