Jeff Prosise

As long as DOS is still around, this book will have a prominent spot in my reference collection.

One of the nicest new features that came with DOS 5 was the QBasic Interpreter, a programming language that is an order of magnitude better than GW-BASIC and BASICA. See Chapter 14.

DOS 5 also provided an editor that was an order of magnitude better than EDLIN. The new DOS Editor is a full-screen text editor. See Chapter 5.

My favorite new command that was introduced in DOS 5 is called DOSKEY. It show more lets you edit DOS command lines, recall previous DOS commands, and create DOS macros. See Chapter 7.

If these enhancements weren't enough, users now have on-line help at their disposal, something that was sorely missing from earlier versions of DOS.

The two disks included with the book contain more than 50 utilities (including their source code) for DOS 5 that let users streamline and customize their DOS sessions.

About Jeff Prosise

After reigning as PC Magazine's authority on DOS, Jeff Prosise became their Windows programming authority. Just as this book is the DOS programming bible, his later book, Programming Windows with MFC, is the MFC programmers' bible. He is a cofounder of Wintellect which provides .NET consulting and education services. His home is in Knoxville, Tennessee. show less

This books takes a hands-on approach to teaching DOS 5 memory management techniques.

Prosise tells his readers how make the following performance-enhancements: (1) load DOS 5 in the High Memory Area, (2) load TSRs and device drivers in upper memory, (3) convert extended memory to expanded memory, (4) save memory with everyday DOS 5 commands, and (5) take advantage of third-party memory managers, such as OEMM-386 and 386MAX.

The floppy disk packaged with the book contains ten DOS 5 utilities show more from PC Magazine: UMBFILES, OPTIMIZE, XMS2EMS, UMASCAN, CMOSSAVE, CMOSRSTR, INSTALL, REMOVE, EMSINFO, and FILEMON. show less