<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>From the year, I bet those were from MKS Toolkit. That software was the only thing that made my life bearable when I had to work on DOS/Windows before Cygwin!<br><br>Apparently they still sell it: http://www.mkssoftware.com/<br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Chris Fowler" <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com><br><b>To: </b>"JD" <jdp@algoloma.com>, "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, August 7, 2014 6:01:05 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] archiving backups<br><br>On 08/07/2014 05:40 PM, JD wrote:<br>>> If I had to do this kind of work on Windows I have no cloud how I would do it. :)<br>> Perhaps powershell or Strawberry perl? S-Perl feels like normal perl unlike the<br>> other options that became popular in the 1990s.<br>><br>> There's always cygwin (cough) or you could do like I almost always do and share<br>> the file area, mount it under Linux and get work done.<br>><br><br>While archiving I found this on one of my floppy images:<br><br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 23936 Aug 24 1995 BANNER.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 17869 Aug 24 1995 CAT.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 486 Aug 24 1995 CHKLIST.MS<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 19165 Aug 24 1995 CHMOD.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 20029 Aug 24 1995 CMP.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 26781 Aug 24 1995 CP.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 17949 Aug 24 1995 CUT.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 19325 Aug 24 1995 DD.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 27709 Aug 24 1995 DDIR.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 25715 Aug 24 1995 FILEUTIL.PL<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 16573 Aug 24 1995 HEAD.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 27757 Aug 24 1995 LS.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 18125 Aug 24 1995 MKDIR.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 23101 Aug 24 1995 MV.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 17629 Aug 24 1995 PASTE.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 2013 Aug 24 1995 README.DOS<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 14125 Aug 24 1995 RMDIR.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 19821 Aug 24 1995 RM.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 37645 Aug 24 1995 TAC.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 28989 Aug 24 1995 TOUCH.EXE<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 966 Feb 14 1999 TRANS.TBL<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 27709 Aug 24 1995 VDIR.EXE<br><br>When I used those programs I had no clue where they came from. I just <br>thought there were<br>better versions of DOS commands. :)<br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20140807/c510b2fe/attachment.html><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></div><br></div></body></html>