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The valuable DOS Freeware page

• Introduction

• OS and GUI

• Utility

• Network

• Compilers

• Typesetting

• More Dos software sources

• Search engines

Links to valuable free Dos programs working on low equipped computers.

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• Introduction

• OS and GUI

• Utility

• Network

• Compilers

• Typesetting

• More Dos software sources

• Search engines

Introduction

The Dos operating system meant much for many people. Today, proprietary Dos-like operating systems seem to be no more developed. In this situation, the only possible future for Dos is the ``free'' software, and it is not just a matter of money anymore.

Unfortunately, ``free'' is a word with many meanings. Today, this is still the biggest obstacle to the future of the Dos world. There is so much software for Dos, with so many different license agreements. The typical Dos user doesn't mind to it. But this problem prevents the realization of big serious projects based on it.

Today, the Dos world needs philosophy, and the GNU idea is still the right one (http://www.gnu.org).

The author of this space would like to list here only ``free software'' in the sense stated by the Free Software Foundation, but it is impossible, as there isn't enough good real free software for Dos.

The listed software is meant to work on i286 and below.

It is attempted to give some kind of classification about the legal condition of the software presented here. The definition used might be outdated, or there might be other wrong assumption. In particular, the definition ``public domain'' means here, in most cases, that there is the source, but there is no clear license statement.

Beside the URI links of some FTP services there is an additional ``search link'' that queries a FTP search engine for the same file. These additional links should be used when there are troubles with the main links.

Anyone can link this document anywhere, so, there is no need to ask for it. Anyway, it is better to link to this document using at the file name http://a2.swlibero.org/the_valuable_dos_freeware_page.html.

In the future, many links may disappear on this page, because of more selective choices concerning software license.

OS and GUI

• FreeDOS ⁽¹⁾ http://www.freedos.org

• nanoDos, a FreeDOS distribution with some networking programs, ready to use/install: ftp://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/AppuntiLinux/nanoDos/

  Italian documentation can be found in chapter u90.

• FreeGEM ⁽²⁾ http://l.webring.com/hub?ring=freegem

Utility

archive, backup

• Gzip ⁽³⁾ - .GZ archive compressor and extractor. ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/compress/gzip124.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=gzip124.zip

• TAR ⁽⁴⁾ - portable TAR - DOS/UNIX backup, compressor, with hardware support. ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/arcers/tar320g.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=tar320g.zip

• Untgz ⁽⁵⁾ - .TGZ, .TAR, .GZ, .ZIP file extractor. ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/arcers/untgz095.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=untgz095.zip

• Info-ZIP ⁽⁶⁾ - .ZIP compatible compression and extraction utility. http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/MSDOS/

• Restaur ⁽⁷⁾ - Replacement for Dos Restore, ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/restaur1.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=restaur1.zip

communication

• DosFax ⁽⁸⁾ - Send a fax using Dos command line http://www.Adr.de/speicherplatz/cs/dosfax.htm

• Bgfax ⁽⁹⁾ http://www.blkbox.com/~bgfax/

• Rifs ⁽¹⁰⁾ - Disk sharing over a serial line, ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/lan/dosrifs2.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=dosrifs2.zip

directory, file

• WCD ⁽¹¹⁾ - Powerful chdir for Dos and Unix http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/

disk

• Dug_ide ⁽¹²⁾ - Report ATA (IDE) disks geometry ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/dugide21.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=dugide21.zip

• Fips ⁽¹³⁾ - Non-destructive splitting of hard disk partitions ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/fips15.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=fips15.zip

• Part ⁽¹⁴⁾ - MBR partition manager http://www.ranish.com/part/

help

• NG_clone ⁽¹⁵⁾ - Norton Guides clone ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/txtutl/ngclon11.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=ngclon11.zip

shell

• DC ⁽¹⁶⁾ - The Dos Controller - A Norton Commander clone ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/fileutil/dc-sk.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=dc-sk.zip

system

• Cmos ⁽¹⁷⁾ - Save/Restore extended C/MOS ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysutl/cmos93cd.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=cmos93cd.zip

• Cmoser ⁽¹⁸⁾ - Save, restore and modify C/MOS memory ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysutl/cmoser11.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=cmoser11.zip

• Bios ⁽¹⁹⁾ - Save, restore, erase C/MOS memory; save a BIOS copy to a file http://www.bockelkamp.de/software/discontinued/bios1351.zip

• KGB ⁽²⁰⁾ - Utility to monitor some Dos functions and reporting into a log file ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysutl/kgb104.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=kgb104.zip

text

• Vim ⁽²¹⁾ - VI improved, a small text editor that can handle very big files with low RAM ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/editor/vim53d16.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=vim53d16.zip

Network

packet driver

• PC/TCP Packet Driver Collection ⁽²²⁾ ftp://ftp.crynwr.com/drivers/ ftp://ftp.crynwr.com/drivers/pktd11.zip

• WATTCP ⁽²³⁾ - TCP/IP library routines http://www.wattcp.com/

• DOS PPPD ⁽²⁴⁾ - Dos port of Linux PPP packet driver ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/pktdrvr/dosppp05.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=dosppp05.zip

• Comring ⁽²⁵⁾ - packet driver emulating ethernet over serial link(s) http://wizard.ae.krakow.pl/~jb/ComRing/

TCP/IP

• WATTCP apps ⁽²⁶⁾ - some common client application using WATTCP library http://www.smashco.com/wattcp/apps.zip

• MiniTelnet ⁽²⁷⁾ - TELNET client http://www.smashco.com/wattcp/mt.zip

• Bobcat ⁽²⁸⁾ - Text based web browser http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/bobcat.htm (derived from DosLynx, ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/WWW/DosLynx/)

• Arachne (GPL) ⁽²⁹⁾ - Graphical web browser http://home.hetnet.nl/~ba8tian/arachne/arachne.htm, http://home.hetnet.nl/~ba8tian/arachne/175-gpl/ar175.htm, http://home.hetnet.nl/~ba8tian/arachne/175-gpl/a175gplf.zip

• PCroute ⁽³⁰⁾ - IP routing program for IBM PC ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/network/pcrte224.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=pcrte224.zip

• PPRD ⁽³¹⁾ - Turn a dedicated PC (XT/AT) into a LPD server ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/lan/pprd200.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=pprd200.zip

• NCSA Telnet ⁽³²⁾ - Telnet, Ftp,... NCSA http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/PCTelnet/ ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Telnet/DOS/ ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/ncsatlnt/

• NOS (KA9Q) ⁽³³⁾ - A complete mini TCP/IP system ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/tcpip/ http://www.google.com/search?q=e920603.zip

  To use NOS you need documentation, for example the package ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/tcpip/intronos.zip

• SSHDOS ⁽³⁴⁾ - SSH client for Dos http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshdos

• Talk ⁽³⁵⁾ - Talk client for Dos http://www.smashco.com/wattcp/talk-13.zip

• ABC-nslookup ⁽³⁶⁾ - DNS query clients for Dos http://www.smashco.com/wattcp/nslb01a.zip

See also:

• Marc S. Ressl, Dos Internet Pages

  http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/

• Smash-Co Communications, TCP/IP for MS-DOS

  http://www.smashco.com/wattcp.asp

• The U-M Software Archive

  http://www.umich.edu/~archive/msdos/communications/wattcp/

  http://www.umich.edu/~archive/msdos/communications/packet/

Compilers

assembler

See the FreeDOS project (http://www.freedos.org) for assembler compilers.

batch

• BAT2EXE ⁽³⁷⁾ - Compile batch files for speed ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/batchutl/bat2ex15.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=bat2ex15.zip

C/C++

See the FreeDOS project (http://www.freedos.org) for C and C++ compilers.

Perl

Perl ⁽³⁸⁾ - Practical Extraction Report Language ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/perl/

Rexx

• BREXX ⁽³⁹⁾ - Rexx interpreter for Dos/Unix http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/rexx/brexx/html/rx.html

xBase

• nanoBase ⁽⁴⁰⁾ - Mini, but nearly complete xBase http://a2.swlibero.org/nanobase_1997.html

See also:

• David Muir Shamoff, Catalog of free compilers and interpreters

  http://www.idiom.com/free-compilers/

Typesetting

• Nro ⁽⁴¹⁾ - A Nroff implementation for Dos ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/txtutl/nroff1.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=nroff1.zip

• Ghostscript ⁽⁴²⁾ - ``GNU'' original edition - PostScript previewing, conversion, and printing ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/gnu/

• emTeX ⁽⁴³⁾ - TeX-LaTeX distribution for Dos ftp://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex/

More Dos software sources

• ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/

• http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/

Search engines

• http://www.shareware.com/

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1) FreeDOS GNU GPL

2) FreeGEM GNU GPL

3) Gzip GNU GPL

4) TAR (Dos) public domain

5) Untgz GNU GPL

6) Info-ZIP free software with special license

7) Restaur cannot be sold for profit

8) DosFax public domain

9) Bgfax promised to become free software

10) Rifs cannot be sold for profit

11) WCD GNU GPL

12) Dug_ide free of charge, with sources

13) Fips GNU GPL

14) Part public domain

15) NG_clone public domain

16) DC public domain (no license at all, and no sources)

17) Cmos public domain

18) Cmoser free of charge

19) Bios free of charge

20) KGB public domain

21) Vim free software with special license

22) Crynwr packet driver collection GNU GPL

23) WATTCP free of charge library

24) DOS PPPD mixed licenses

25) Comring GNU GPL

26) WATTCP apps cannot be sold

27) MiniTelnet free software with a special license

28) Bobcat GNU GPL

29) Arachne GNU GPL

30) PCroute cannot distribute modifications

31) PPRD software non libero: licenza Artistic

32) NCSA Telnet public domain

33) NOS public domain

34) SSHDOS GNU GPL

35) Talk GNU GPL

36) ABC-nslookup UCB BSD

37) BAT2EXE public domain

38) Perl GNU GPL or Artistic

39) BREXX public domain

40) nanoBase GNU GPL

41) Nro public domain

42) Ghostscript GNU GPL

43) emTeX LPPL but some files have different conditions

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