Links to valuable free Dos programs working on low equipped computers.
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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 The definition used might be outdated, or there might be other wrong assumption.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.
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.
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
DosFax (8) - Send a fax using Dos command line http://www.Adr.de/speicherplatz/cs/dosfax.htm
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
WCD (11) - Powerful chdir for Dos and Unix http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/
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/
NG_clone (15) - Norton Guides clone ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/txtutl/ngclon11.zip http://www.google.com/search?q=ngclon11.zip
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
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
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
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/
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
Smash-Co Communications, TCP/IP for MS-DOS
The U-M Software Archive
See the FreeDOS project (http://www.freedos.org) for assembler compilers.
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
See the FreeDOS project (http://www.freedos.org) for C and C++ compilers.
Perl (38) - Practical Extraction Report Language ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/perl/
BREXX (39) - Rexx interpreter for Dos/Unix http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/rexx/brexx/html/rx.html
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
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/
6) Info-ZIP free software with special license
7) Restaur cannot be sold for profit
9) Bgfax promised to become free software
10) Rifs cannot be sold for profit
12) Dug_ide free of charge, with sources
16) DC public domain (no license at all, and no sources)
21) Vim free software with special license
22) Crynwr packet driver collection GNU GPL
23) WATTCP free of charge library
26) WATTCP apps cannot be sold
27) MiniTelnet free software with a special license
30) PCroute cannot distribute modifications
31) PPRD software non libero: licenza Artistic
32) NCSA Telnet public domain
36) ABC-nslookup UCB BSD
42) Ghostscript GNU GPL
43) emTeX LPPL but some files have different conditions
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