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Stuck in the middle with you (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

OG DOS command line interface nerds unite

but yes. it helps to have grown up alongside the IT industry and internet

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember getting our first computer. It was a Tandy 1000 and I was completely fascinated by it. I loved playing games on it but we couldn't afford them. My dad got some sort of PC magazine that always had the DOS code for one or two games in the back and I would spend hours writing that code onto the PC so we could play things like video poker or chess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

By DOS code, do you mean BASIC? This comment says a lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I remember copying a game onto floppies from DOS, but I can no longer remember the command that tells it to split the file onto multiple disks because it's too big for 2.88 MB

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

funny how i didn't see all the shit you had to go through back in the day just to pirate a <10MB game as a pain in the ass that i see it as now, yet i'd still go back to those days in a heartbeat if i could

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Check out moneybags over here with his 2.88mb

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have no idea what it would have been in a Windows/DOS environment, but

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/split.1.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It was called spanning and was usually done with a third party utility like xcopy or pkzip, but I am pretty sure MS backup did it as well. I don't think you could do it with DOS copy command through v6.22.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah, that name brought it back-- it was pkzip for sure. Still don't remember the exact argument at the end of the line that would split it but the basic was just the same copy command format as DOS used (pkzip c:\xyz*.* a:)

I suppose I could look it up but that's more effort than I'm looking to spend on old DOS commands right now :)