Sorry about not updating guys. I've been busy with classwork. I'm also in the process of migrating DOS over to a proper VM with save states, etc, instead of running it straight in dosbox. Expect an update this weekend at the latest.
Now to reply to some random comments...
>ERASE C:\*
You actually cannot format C while running Windows normally. In order to format a disk you need to unmount the disk, and you can unmount C because it's in use and the only way to free it is to close Windows and therefore be unable to format it. You can format it using the repair tools on the Windows DVD.
This was also the case for DOS. In order to format C, assuming you had a local hard drive installation of DOS (assuming you even
had a hard drive), you would need to boot to a floppy with DOS, a partition editor, or some other formatting utility, and erase it from there.
whats in that info.txt
Start "Notepad" Notepad.exe "C:\Info.txt"
Start "Info" "C:\Info.txt"
MS DOS 5 or Windows running it? whichever one
Mentioned it earlier, but info.txt is in fact the documentation to a floppy disk formatting utility I had installed.
C:\>TYPE INFO.TXT
Suddenly a torrent of text dumps down your screen, the green letters flashing before your eyes. You catch bits and phrases in both English and German. It's the documentation to FMT.EXE, and explains to you how to use FMT command to format 5.25 and 3.5 in floppies in high and low density formats.
You can now format floppies. Just state that you'd like to make a floppy and what size, and you'll automatically do it.
Notably, TYPE actually dumps the full text of a document out on your screen without any kind of breaks or scrolling. On old systems you could watch the document scroll by because of the slow speed of the processor, and if you factor in ghosting on old phosphor screens, it just looked like a blur of green/amber/white letters flashing by. On modern computers, it runs so fast that the document gets printed almost instantly, filling up the buffer so you only catch the last 40 or so lines.
A better way of viewing documents was to get a version of
less for DOS and add it to PATH, then pipe everything into less. Alternatively, you could use the EDIT command to open the document in the DOS equivalent of notepad, at least in MS-DOS. I can't speak for other versions of DOS, I've only worked with MS-DOS (3.0, 5.0, 6.22).
