Features
4DOS features a number of enhancements when compared to COMMAND.COM:
- Additional commands
- Extended functionality of existing commands
- Extended batch file processing facilities
- Improved command line editing, including filename completion and command history
- Support for command aliases, also in scripts
- Enhanced wildcards and the ability to filter by file sizes, date and time stamps, et cetera
- Extended syntax for redirection and piping
- Context-specific online help
- Colored directory listings
- Internal variables and variable functions
- A more sophisticated swapping mechanism, yielding more free conventional memory on most systems
- An interactive debugger for batch files
- A mechanism for creating, maintaining and displaying file descriptions
- Configuration stored in an INI file
- Support for the Windows clipboard
- Support for starting OS/2 programs.
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