TODO - there are a lot of other notes in deep archives

(on Wikipedia)
https://4dos.info/ (Klaus Meinhard's Homepage)

The official DOS version is abandoned.
An an open source version was released for FreeDOS, but it appears to be abandoned.
The Windows version was called 4NT, but later renamed to TCC/LE

DOS continuation ∞

They released the source code and this project was continued by others.

The last version I see noted is Build 200 (Version 8.00) — 27 February 2009.

Was https://web.archive.org/web/20100724203153/http://www.4dos.hit.bg:80/ .. which is gone. (archive)
It moved hosts to 4dos.zzl.org/ which is gone.
- Based on Rex Conn's release of build 132's source code.
A supposed mirror was http://4dos7.extra.hu/ .. but it was never actually put there.
Mirror 1 - http://hu.dotroll.com .. is gone and has no archive.
Mirror 2 - http://4dos.ilbello.com .. is gone and has no archive.
Mirror 3 - 4dos.isgreat.org/ .. is gone.

There was also 4dos.tk/ .. which is gone and has no archive.
- I don't know what this website's association to the other project is.

2006-04-22 ∞

dir without the time/date
REBOOT pauses for a second! Not always necessary if you've got 100% compatible software (e.g. cache) !!
give a "hot" boot, like boot.com (make it intelligent so it will pick another way to boot if boot.com's method would hang?
be able to boot from a floppy through a reboot-type command.
%@ATTRIB won't work if in a long directory string (ted3.bat) if it's in a .btm
pressing tab while in the middle of typing up a description
if, say, one pagedown from a text, with list, pressing w multiple times will page down more..
have rd be able to remove nested subdirs too (not have to use del/sxyz)
TEXT should have a switch to allow the expansion of variables
Gives memory access errors under Windows 95 if used as the primary shell
be able to have the command history available after a command separater (^) as per bla<cr> --then--> bla^<up> = bla^bla
should have consistancy between 4dos and tcmd so the commands are the SAME.. having to make the conversion is a fucking pain in the ass.
should store all descriptions as the short form of a name -- or at least make a best guess when displaying everything in non-windows DOS
Cannot alt-bksp to delete the word to the left. This appears to be a scancode problem...

have list be aware of that buggered-up font that windows uses in its "text" files.
put in a feature to have tcmd replace the windows desktop
alt-backspace does not delete the word to the right like in 4dos!
be able to import 4dos settings & convert them!
alt-f4 in the console should be as per typing exit -- triggers aliases etc... (can be done by the user!)
should be more intelligent about replacing / supplementing 4dos

copy/s and move/s don't handle subdirectory descriptions -- they should also be able to overwrite the descriptions properly or ignore descript.ions.
control-tab should be able to press the first letter/digit in a filename to quickly jump to that digit
cd\nameTAB won't work!
%@FILESEEKL returns the offset bytes not the line number!!

Klaus Meinhard's Homepage -- He had retired himself.. but he brought it back up and then moved it. He had reportedly disbanded and other people had picked up his stuff:
- "My collection of 4DOS (and 4NT) related stuff (old program versions, batches, documents, etc.) has found a new home at Robin Y. Milette's site" - https://web.archive.org/web/20040831235154/http://4xbtm.waglo.com:80/ (archive)
- http://www.quasatron.com/ -- The vanilla DOS pages D-Links and D-Tools are now in the hands of Kenneth C. Mazie
  -- 2016-12-25 - I don't see a reference to it.

Will misreport and say it can't find a file after deleting one, then if I delete something else, it'll misreport and say it can't delete the ORIGINAL file, but pointing towards the new directory.
No hidden files.

Last updated 2024-06-29 at 16:33:57