i don't know what info you require, but here goes anyway. i want to learn about dos. i know it is used for many reasons and i'd like some insight. i run windows 98 on a 700Mhz amd duron processor. my motherboard is an EPOX 8kta. i have 396 MB ram but only 320 shows. anyway, is there any websites that can take you from begginer to quite well informed? i'd love some help. thanks in advance

My advice is get a good book! There are many spanning a spectrum of topics but one that stands out in my mind is "The Waite Group's MS-DOS Bible" (1991?) This will take you through using the command shell and batch files through how the DOS filesystem is structured, memory managment under DOS, an explaination of how the OS loads a program up to wrting little progams of you own using machine language and debug. Another great book I haven't seen in a while is Dan Gookin's "Advanced MS-DOS Batch File Programming" that will also teach you something about operating systems in general in a nice, unformal tone. This is was one of my favorites. DOS also comes with a BASIC interpreter called QBASIC, that can teach you the funamentals of programming while augmenting your shell scripts and doing things that plain batch files just can't do. Check your local librarie(s) for books on this. (And Windows 9x users can also get QBasic from the Windows cdrom under a subdirectory called OLDMSDOS which might be tucked away in another subdir. but I forget right now. Find it and copy it to your \Windows\COMMAND folder.

YUP. Here where I live, Hastings records and tapes (and bookstore) is ALWAYS discounting books on computers. Not too long ago I saw one in there on DOS 6.22. Get on "google" and type in something like "using dos" or "dos commands" There are LOTS of web pages on this subject. Be aware, that not all commands are available in the DOS mode of Win9x unless you patched them in there.

Peter Norton wrote some good DOS books and published them as BRADY books, a branch of Simon and Schuster. Your best bet is to get a version of MS-DOS and use the help page which lists all the commands with the switches. It will be a lot easier than tracking down old out of print books good as some of them were. I don't know how experienced you are, but a person with no experience could learn quite a bit in Windows 98 at the DOS prompt. type DIR and enter to see what it does. Change drives by typing A: and enter. Try to be able to move around the directories by typeing CD and the directory such as CD \Windows\system and enter. Then DIR. If you keep at it you will learn. There are some websites with good information on DOS. Try HTTP://www.Powerload.fsnet.co.uk first.