DOS stands for Disc Operating System. It was the operating system for personal computers that Bill Gates invented originally and his fortune rose from that. Personal computers started to become available in the 1980s and most ran on DOS. WINDOWS was the next big change and that started in the 1990s. WINDOWS allowed you to have several applications open at once and you could swap between them ...
where do i need to execute the commands it VSS server is it in MS-DOS prompt of the VSS server or somewhere else, kindly advise.
When we talk about the command line, I am talking about the DB2 'DB2 Command Window - Administrator' shortcut that installed with DB2 Connect, where I run DB2 commands like 'db2 list database directory', etc. through a DOS window. Connecting this way doesn't use the ODBC DSNs, that I am aware of, but connecting to DB2 does work fine with it.
It is a left over from MS Dos (Unix) which were commandline OS systems. In fact you don't start with Windows on the foreground with a command. Windows does that for you (of course again in the same way before somebody thinks it is needed to tell how it was done in the eighties with a Vax) Success Cor Tuesday, 3:35 PM 0 Sign in to vote
The first step is getting DOS 6.22, the most recent version released in 1994, set up with all the drivers and software needed to access the Internet. At the time of its release there were many ...
Microsoft arguably built its business on MS-DOS, and on Tuesday the software giant and the Mountain View, CA-based Computer History Museum took the unprecedented step of publishing the source code for ...