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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 15:38:59 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   Two pages from the original IBM PC 5150 Guide to Operations (August 1981) with *all* the DOS commands available at the time.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 15:38:55 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • root42

     @root42 Yeah, all those are in. Maybe Microsoft decided that anything that has its own interface and requires quitting back to DOS isn't a DOS "command". 🤷

   • root42 (root42@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 15:38:58 UTC root42

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     @dosnostalgic debug and edlin are missing. IIRC they were part of PC DOS from the very beginning. Also BASICA should probably be counted.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 15:52:48 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Colin Devroe

     @cdevroe Not in Windows, but it's a pretty standard feature for any orthodox file manager.

   • Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 15:52:49 UTC Colin Devroe

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     @dosnostalgic is there an equivalent to DISCOMP today?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 15:55:01 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • psf

     @psf It was no trouble at all, thanks to the magic of https://www.pcjs.org/

   • psf (psf@oldbytes.space)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 15:55:13 UTC psf

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     @dosnostalgic Always wondered why later versions had both DEL and ERASE. Now I know! Thanks for going to the trouble of trying it out, too!

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 15:55:14 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • psf

     @psf In just in case:

   • psf (psf@oldbytes.space)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 15:55:15 UTC psf

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     @dosnostalgic Are you sure this is all of the commands? Looks to me like it's a summary of frequently used commands, and it looks to be missing some. For example, it doesn't list DEL, just ERASE.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 15:55:15 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • psf

     @psf It is ALL the commands.