| Dan Gookin's Guide to Underground DOS 6.0 |  | Author: Dan Gookin
Publisher: Random House Information Group
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 4602022
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 215
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 0679791159
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780679791157
ASIN: 0679791159
Publication Date: May 13, 1993
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A practical user's guide to unraveling the mysteries of DOS illustrates how to harness the operating system's full potential.
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A DOS classic that I found very helpful May 7, 2008
Although it has long since passed out of the collective IT memory, intimate knowledge of DOS was once a prized skill. At the height of DOS utilization, there was no better way to learn DOS than through the books of Dan Gookin. I kept a copy of his books within arms reach of my computer and when faced with a difficult task that taxed my knowledge of DOS, I reached for one of them. I was never disappointed and my coworkers often asked to borrow them when they faced the same dilemma. As I recall, they were never disappointed as well.
Another good read from Gookin June 6, 2006
I think the review dated April 1 1998 is ironic, with the date of
April 1 being significant. Seriously, this is a great book for
computer users who want to explore DOS beyond the level of More
DOS for Dummies by the same author.
Despite the title the book refers mainly to DOS 5 with a little
DOS 6, presumably because DOS 6 was new at that time. The book is
about exploring DOS and PCs in general with the program DEBUG. I
recommend creating a DOS 5 1.4M boot floppy with the following
programs added, which should all be the DOS 5 versions (except
EDIT):
ANSI.SYS
COMP.EXE
DEBUG.EXE
DOSKEY.COM
EDIT.COM (from DOS 7)
EMM386.EXE
FIND.EXE
FORMAT.COM
HIMEM.SYS
KEYB.COM
KEYBOARD.SYS
LABEL.EXE
MEM.EXE
MORE.COM
RAMDRIVE.SYS
A blank floppy is also needed which ideally should be formatted
with DOS 5. By using DOS 5 you will get results which most closely resemble those in the book.
I found I was frequently pencilling annotations to note results of trying the exercises as well as clarifying the text and
correcting typos. Fortunately there is only one typo in the
script files - Figure 5-4, the file size (under RCX)is AC not AB
Also in some of the early batch files the printer (of the book)seemed unable to handle the less-than symbol for redirecting input to DEBUG.
This sort of book helps build an understanding of PC fundamentals which surprisingly helps with apparently unrelated tasks such as formatting a hard drive and installing windows XP.
I loved your book it was the GREATEST April 2, 1998
it helped me with my online expernice. It also helped me with my english. I just want to say this is the greatest book in the world. I will burn my bible in put your book in its place. I also love the author fo writing the book
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