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General

Origins of MS-DOS, some articles about MS-DOS and Tim Paterson, its original author (he prefers this term over "inventor"), on the website of Paterson Technology.
Run DOS Run!
Computing.Net DOS Forum

Beginner's Programming Tutorial in QBasic
Net-Tamer
Net-Tamer is a DOS PPP dial up access program, which requires no TSR packet driver. It will web browse, get/send your email, get/ send usenet messages, FTP upload/download a file, TELNET to another internet address, or check the time and date. It is a both robot and a navigator. It will get email and usenet groups, then log off so you can use the included offline reader, or you can choose to stay on and look around. It will also do a download/ upload of mail or usenet on a timer. The program is speech friendly to users of talking programs for the visually impaired.
Pedit is a text editor, mostly for programmers. Comes with a hex editor and is optimized for a 386 or faster.
PictView is an image viewer and converter supporting more than 40 file formats. Freeware. Unfortunately it requires a 386 minimum.
Reads: BMI, BMP, BW, CAL, CDR, CDT, CEL, CLP, CMX, CPT, CUR, CUT, DCX, DIB, FLC, FLI, GIF, HAM, HRZ, ICN, ICO, IFF, IMG, JFF, JIF, JMX, JPE, JPG, LBM, MIL, MAC, MSP, OFX, PAN, PAT, PBM, PC2, PCD, PCT, PCX, PGM, PIC, PNG, PNM, PPM, PSD, PYX, QFX, RAS, RGB, RLE, SAM, SCx, SEP, SGI, ST, STW, SUN, TGA, TIFF, UDI, WPG, ZBR

Writes: BMP, BW, CEL, CUT, DIB, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, JFF, JIF, JPE, JPG, LBM, PBM, PCX, PGM, PIC, PNM, PPM, RAS, RGB, RLE, SCx, SGI, SUN, TGA, TIFF
It's a pity it cannot (yet?) write PNGs.

Last modified 2011-10-26