Document collections
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Collated sets of documents found on the web and on various old shareware CD-ROMs. These documents are both of historic interest and may still be useful to current FreeDOS enthusiasts.
Install these collections like any other of my packages (see the main page for details). They will then be available in \FDOS\DOC. For example, you will find the Pascal Newsletter in \FDOS\DOC\PNLDOC, and sample code that went along with that newsletter will be in \FDOS\SOURCE\PNLDOC. The vast majority are in plain ASCII text format and can be viewed with a text editor or viewer. If a resource is in a different format, it will be noted here.
The copyright status of these documents is usually unclear, but if you are the copyright owner and you object to your material being made available like this (even after having been widely disseminated on shareware CD-ROMs for thirty years!), please let me know and I will take them down.
Please note that these packages have no LSM file in the APPINFO folder.
For interactive programs containing similar content, see the tutorials page.
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Batch file docs - various tutorials on writing DOS batch files.
- Baker’s News - 1992-1993
- The files in this package include the full text of press releases issued from March 1992 to Augiust 1993 and distributed electronically via the America Online New Product Information Service.
- Each file is a standard ASCII text file, formatted for 80 column viewing or printing using your favorite utilities.
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C Tutor - Shareware by Coronado Enterprises
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Command Line - Neal Stephenson’s legendary essay “In the beginning was the command line”, in plain text format.
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GIF News 1990-1991 - News delivered in … wait for it … GIF format.
- Pascal programming by TutorialsPoint.
- In PDF format.
- QBasic by Faraaz Damji, Adam Colton and Gareth Richardson.
- Originally from https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QBasic.
- In PDF format.
- A similar (online-only) resource is Programmed Lessons in QBasic
- QBasic Programming without stress by Akinola A Adenyi.
- in PDF format.
- The A to Z of C, The evolving non-profit book on C/DOS/Turbo C programming. By K. Joseph Wesley & R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah (c) 2001
- Originally from http://guideme.itgo.com/atozofc/.
- A complete course in C programming for DOS, focusing on Turbo C.
- In PDF format.
- The Pascal Newsletter - 1990 to 1992.
- Focuses on Turbo Pascal.
- The Regina ReXX Interpreter - by Anders Christensen.
- In PDF format.
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WordPerfect Graphics - In the original WPG format and also converted to SVG. Unzip these anywhere you want.
- Zip Magazine - Online magazine c. 1988.
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