DOS-Archiver

DOS-Archiver used to help archive floppy disks using flash drives, USB, CD Rom, and configure a third floppy drive in MS-DOS.

Requirements

You will need these tools installed and configured to use this script:

1. ImageDisk (IMD) - The main disk imaging tool
2. DOS USB Support or a stable Disk Drive
3. GNU Utilities including mkdir, MKD, ls, du, and dd (https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/freeDOS/gnuish/gnufut21.zip and https://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/pub/mirrors/freedos/gnuish/dos_only/fut312bx.zip)
4. PKUNZIP
5. RAM DRIVE Support for improved performance
6. Strings (https://web.archive.org/web/20000914073439/http://2dos.homepage.dk/batutil/strings.zip)
7. AUTOKEY Used for Macros - (https://archive.org/details/Simtel20_Sept92)
8. tee - FreeDOS (https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/unix/tee/tee203.zip)
9. MD5 (https://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/)
10. DskImage (https://www.brutman.com/DskImage/)
11. Norton Antivirus BootDisk (https://archive.org/details/symantec_norton_antivirus)
12. CHOICE.COM

Useful Links

• https://tinyapps.org/blog/202204170700_imaging_recovering_floppies.html
• http://mc-computing.com/Languages/DOSSendKeys.htm
• https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/how-to-send-keystroke-in-batch-or-command-in-ms-dos.54431/ (https://archive.org/details/Simtel20_Sept92)
• https://www.philscomputerlab.com/dos-benchmark-pack.html

Honourable mentions

1. Dump Floppy (https://offog.org/code/dumpfloppy/) Creates IMD disk images in Linux. Kernel limited, has not been maintained, and does not work on DOS

2. SAMDISK (https://simonowen.com/samdisk/) Another floppy disk imaging tool

3. tee (not MSDOS) http://zuga.net/articles/dos-where-can-i-find-tee-for-windows/

4. FreeDOS (https://freedos.org/) Has been greatly helpful and has useful utilities Repo of files: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/

5. More modern reference MD5 implementation https://github.com/Zunawe/md5-c

6. Norton AntiVirus - DOS NAV (https://winworldpc.com/product/norton-anti-virus/20)

7. ClamAV for FreeDOS (https://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/HTMLhelp-110/en/hhstndrd/util/clamav.htm)

8. CSDPMI5B.ZIP (https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_tool_guides/the_sed_faq/sedfaq5_004.html)

9. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=79650

10. https://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/pub/mirrors/freedos/gnuish/ and https://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/pub/mirrors/freedos/gnuish/dos_only/

11. https://www.pement.org/sed/bat_env.htm#4dos

12. FreeDOS ClamAV (https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/clamav/)

13. DI DiskImager (https://github.com/fredrikdev/DiskImager)

Old GNU 4.5.4

• https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/old-gnu/Manuals/coreutils-4.5.4/html_mono/coreutils.html
• https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/old-gnu/