MS-DOS?

[astra]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

"Hit any key to continue"

I don't have any key button on my keyboard!

[The Terminator]

OK Thanks just wanted to know the worst possible command that I could do. End of thread

[LCF]

But that would be a deep format, not deleting. It's something like format c: . This will make it very, very hard if not impossible to recover the data.

[wodin]

Originally Posted by Mortis

Thats evil! Honestly, you thought that would be funny? Do you know what that command does, I remember it because I used to batch Delete many disks.

Del is self explanatory.
*.* simply means ALL
/s subdirectories
/q that is for a quick format I think, don't remember /q.

I remember when telling people the ctrl + alt + delete together would show them an easter egg, it was just as funny then as it is now.

I'm not sure if "unerase" would work in a virtual machine.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ardeegee

There is a hidden "easter egg" text game in MS-DOS. To access it, you type "

Command given deleted due to it not being funny and actually being nasty and damaging.

That said, I suggest you go back and edit your post. I've reported it so even if you don't, I hope a moderator will deal with it. And I feel that all your karma should be taken away.

[wodin]

I'm reminded of the BBS system that the repair shop I worked in had. Someone hacked it and formatted the hard drive for us. We just booted it up from the floppy drive, and ran unformat; Wallah! everything came back.

Try that with Win7!

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by THE TERMINATOR

what is the worst thing that could happen if I start playing around on MS-DOS?

Well the first thing that comes to mind is Mr Dos would get pretty mad!

Actually learning DOS will help to give you a better understanding of how the operating system works under the covers. I'm not sure how true it is any more but I'm pretty sure that even as recently as vista the underlying code for windows was pretty much unchanged.

The other alternative would be to begin learning the command line of one of the *nix flavors. Not only are they still relevant, but they can be pretty useful as well.

[bhartman36]

Originally Posted by MJK2111

You'll grow hair on your palms?

No, you're thinking of playing around on the Web.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by THE TERMINATOR

...
I managed to get a computer that still had MS-DOS at the community share shed for ten bucks.
...

Nothing wrong with MS-DOS.* If you can find copies of Quatro Pro and Wordstar you'll have a pretty quick and productive machine.

Bu-uuu-ut, a computer with MS-DOS installed is likely to be pretty old. You'll pay dearly if the hard drive fails and you learn you need an MFM drive to replace it.



* Well, okay. I was raised on UNIX, and I was never a fan of MS-DOS.

[FatDog]

You would be better off getting a Linux box and learning the unix commands. They are more obscure, but Mac uses a flavor of Linux and many powerful script languages (Perl, Python) work well from the command line.

Go to Amazon and sign up for their "Cloud". Somewhere (I forget where) they have profiles that will create a virtual instance of RedHat or Debian or .. other flavors of Linux.

This gives you a real environment that disappears when you log off and you have zero risk of hurting anything.

[wodin]

Originally Posted by dsvick

Well the first thing that comes to mind is Mr Dos would get pretty mad!

Would that be Miss Dos' father of Mrs. Dos' husband?

[wodin]

Originally Posted by FatDog

You would be better off getting a Linux box and learning the unix commands. They are more obscure, but Mac uses a flavor of Linux and many powerful script languages (Perl, Python) work well from the command line.

Go to Amazon and sign up for their "Cloud". Somewhere (I forget where) they have profiles that will create a virtual instance of RedHat or Debian or .. other flavors of Linux.

This gives you a real environment that disappears when you log off and you have zero risk of hurting anything.

VirtualBox is free, and works well for building one or more virtual machines in your Windows, Linux, Macintosh, or Solaris box that can run most any OS. For an MS-Dos VM you'd only need a few mbytes of storage and one mbyte of RAM. I have one running Ubuntu on my Win7 box.

[JSWolf]

Windows & MAC has cause one problem...

Command line? What's that?

No joke.

[Freeshadow]

TERMI there's still dos development alive - take a glance at freedos

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by THE TERMINATOR

I couldn't really find anything out about this, but what is the worst thing that could happen if I start playing around on MS-DOS?

You might have to get IT amputated if it gets infected.