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This article introduces the knowledge of "what are the necessary tools under DOS". In the operation of actual cases, many people will encounter such a dilemma, so let the editor lead you to learn how to deal with these situations. I hope you can read it carefully and be able to achieve something!

When the operating system is installed, the first thing is to make the whole computer hardware play its own functions, such as mouse, optical drive, sound card and so on. At this point, you need to have the corresponding drivers, and these drivers are the necessary tools under DOS. These drivers can be downloaded from the "DOS Software" of this site, and the installation and setting methods can be found in the purpose of this column, "use and setup of hardware devices under DOS".

Once the hardware is working properly, it's time for DOS to complete the required functions. DOS is not only a convenient and practical operating system, but also a basic operating system, on which many interface enhancements (such as Windows 3.x/9x) are implemented, that is, DOS is their kernel. Therefore, it is very appropriate to manage some systems and disks under DOS, such as copying disks, partitioning, formatting, and so on. At this time, disk tools such as GHOST,FDISK,FORMAT and PQMAGIC can show their skills and can be used as necessary tools under DOS. Of course, other system maintenance tools (such as disk checking tools, etc.) are also very important, as you can see in the purpose of this column, "maintenance of DOS systems".

As we all know, in order to save space, many files are accessed by compression. Therefore, the tools for compression and decompression under DOS are very important. The commonly used compression formats are ZIP,RAR and ARJ, and the DOS tools that can build and expand these compression formats are (UN) ZIP, (UN) RAR and (UN) ARJ, respectively. Their operations are very convenient and fast, such as PKUNZIP * .ZIP can expand all the ZIP files under the current folder. The same is true for RAR and ARJ formats, where you can create or expand the corresponding compressed documents. Note, however, that as RAR has adopted the new RAR compression format in version 3.0 in recent years, many new RAR files are decompressed using the latest version of RAR (that is, version 3.0), which can be downloaded in the "Compression tool" of this site. As for the specific use of the above tools such as PKZIP/PKUNZIP and RAR, you can see the "use of common compression and decompression tools under DOS" in the "DOS article" column of this site. In addition to compressing general files, you can also compress executable files, that is, reducing the size of executable files. The best executable compression tool is UPX, which is so powerful that it can be used as a must-have tool.

There are also some files called image files, such as IMG files, many of which are generated with HD-COPY and, of course, other tools. The best way to extract these files is to use UNDISK (which can be downloaded from this site), which can expand the image files very efficiently and can be used as a necessary tool. It is best not to use tools such as HD-COPY to extract these files, because this tool is not only old, but also can only expand files to a floppy disk, which is very inconvenient. The UNDISK just mentioned is much easier to use.

What if you don't know what the compressed format is for some files (especially if the extension is missing)? At this time, you can use GetType, a very powerful tool under DOS, whose latest version is 2.60, which can be downloaded from this site. It can display the information in the compressed / image / encrypted file in great detail, and even display all the contents without any other software. Not only that, it can also display information in executable files (including Windows files) and other files, is very powerful, and supports long file names. You can use it as a necessary tool, because once you have it, it will be much easier to operate.

As we all know, Windows's file manager is very intuitive to operate, and there are many such tools under DOS, which can be found in the "file management" of this site. They are also operated graphically, usually in addition to the basic file management functions, but also can achieve many other functions, such as built-in file editor, you can view the contents of compressed files, and in recent years, DOS file management tools have also added support for long file names and FAT32 functions. Among these tools, the more practical ones are Volkov Commander, which have good interfaces and strong functions, and we can use them as necessary tools.

Naturally, using DOS will often deal with files and folders, so how to make good use of these files and folders is very important. Common file operations, such as creating, deleting, editing, etc., can not only use DOS commands, but also use many enhancement tools, which can greatly improve the efficiency of file operations. These tools can be downloaded from the "file tools" of this site, and most of the file tools of this site support long file names and FAT32 partitions. MS-DOS 7.10 can use not only short filenames, but also long filenames. There are usually two ways: long filename driver and direct manipulation of long filename. It is very practical and can be used as a necessary tool. For specific methods, please see the article in the "DOS article" column of this site.

With the development of computer, more and more people begin to use it, so many things in daily life (such as writing articles, listening to music, watching images, etc.) are carried out on the computer. So, how do you do this under DOS? Let's start with writing articles. DOS comes with an EDIT command that can edit multiple files and binaries, but the function is not very powerful (such as not being able to set fonts, etc.), you can use other special text processing tools to complete. Some of these tools are famous, such as MS-Word,CCED,WPS, which can be downloaded from the "text" tool on this site. Some people like to listen to music while typing, which can also be achieved under DOS. Take SETEDIT as an example, this is a very powerful and practical DOS word processing software, not only has the function of word processing, but also can write articles while listening to MP3 music, how good! So you can use them as essential tools.

After talking about the word processing under DOS, the next step is to listen to music and watch images and so on. There are many softwares for listening to music and watching images under DOS. For example, you can listen to audio music in WAV,MID,MP3 format. The function and effect are very good (not the kind of playback effect of the oldest and worst MP3 player DOSAMP), which can be seen in the purpose of this column, "Multimedia under DOS". For example, QuickView, its size is very small, but the function is very powerful, we can use it as a necessary tool. It is also very convenient to view images under DOS, usually there are two ways, one is command line mode, the other is graphical interface mode. Take PictView (which can be downloaded from the "graphics software" of this site) as an example, it can play more than 40 graphics formats, such as JPG,GIF,BMP,TGA,ICO, GIF, etc., not only fast, good quality and effect, but also its volume is very small, only more than 100K! Therefore, it can be used as an essential tool. But some image software, especially the old image software, such as NV, is not only slow, poor playback quality, but also very large, so it is best not to use it.

There are many very powerful and practical software under DOS, which can also be used as necessary tools. DOS software is usually very small and practical, which naturally greatly facilitates everyone's use. For example, commands such as SHUTDOWN and POWEROFF can easily achieve soft shutdown in the DOS command line mode, which is not only easy to operate, but also very small, so we can use them as a necessary tool. There are also some DOS command enhancement tools that can greatly enhance the external functions of DOS, such as XXCOPY,XMSDSK, etc., which can be downloaded from this site. In order to facilitate your use, I have made the "DOS common tools set", including the direct running versions of all kinds of software (such as command line tools, drivers, system tools, disk tools, compression tools, multimedia software, etc.), which are placed in the "DOS system" of the "DOS Software" column of this site. Welcome to download and use.

As everyone's habits and hobbies are different, the main operations that everyone does are not the same. For example, if some people like programming or batch processing files, they can use some practical programming tools (which can be downloaded in the "scripting tools" of this site) as necessary tools; some people like to play games. You can use some game modification software or simulator (which can be downloaded in the "game software" of this site) as a necessary tool. Therefore, you can also choose the necessary tools that suit you according to your preferences. However, you should try to use the new DOS software released in recent years, because they are not only more powerful overall, but also support the latest computer technologies (such as FAT32 partitions, large hard drives, long file names, PCI/USB devices, etc.).

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