Thread: A non programming-DOS question.

now in dos you can use echo to print text to the screen in the window or in a batch file...can you use it/or is there another way to display a picture(.bmp, .jpg, or .gif, or any format i guess) in dos...with out a program i mean, like with a batch file. thanks.

It's not possible to view graphic formats in DOS (except ASCII art!) without an application - Batch files cannot be used because they are simply a series of DOS commands in a long line. You would have to download a dedicated GIF (or whatever) viewer for any image-related task in DOS.

dos can support grpahics but you need speical dingies im sure youve played wolfenstien 3d or doom or something. but if you plan to use grpahics i recomend learnign tomake win32 apps. they come out beter and have more capability (thats what i hear)

dos can support grpahics but you need speical dingies im sure youve played wolfenstien 3d or doom or something. but if you plan to use grpahics i recomend learnign tomake win32 apps. they come out beter and have more capability (thats what i hear)

When you mention a Win32 app, I would guess that you are refering to Win32 console applications. Meaning, a dos box. I would guess this, in the theroy, that this would somehow relate to the thread. When in fact, it doesn't. Win32 apps, or atleast from my expierence, will not run in pure DOS mode.

> grpahics
graphics.

> you need speical dingies
That sounds like a job for me.

> grpahics i recomend learnign tomake
graphics I recommend learning to make

..............use a spell checker or something

Unless you manage to change graphics mode (most of which that are supported in DOS are quite poor anyway) then images cannot be displayed. Proper 'pure' DOS is 16-bit so as Win32 applications (or whatever) won't execute. However, I dont know if DOS 7.10 (Windows 95 dos) or DOS XP are 32 bit though ...

Originally posted by Unimatrix139
Unless you manage to change graphics mode (most of which that are supported in DOS are quite poor anyway) then images cannot be displayed. Proper 'pure' DOS is 16-bit so as Win32 applications (or whatever) won't execute. However, I dont know if DOS 7.10 (Windows 95 dos) or DOS XP are 32 bit though ...

your post has very little clarity meaning or accuracy.

win 95/98 dos is a slightly worked over dos 6.2 and is still the same 16 bit real mode thang.
there is no DOS in xp.
your implying that 32 bit apps can support high graphics modes better than 16 bit apps is wrong, but irrelevant because for many other reasons there isn't a whole lot of 16 bit anything floating around. all successful dos apps that are graphically intense are written in 32 bit compilers.

I was refering to Shadow's post about Win32 applications in DOS, although after re-reading my post i suppose it doesn't make much sense - It must have done at the time when refering to 'DOS XP' I meant the command processor supplied with XP - CMD.EXE or COMMAND.COM I think it's called - although I could be completly off track, I don't actually own anything XP. Sorry!

WinXP has a command. Go to run, type command, hit enter.
All windows versions have this.

> win 95/98 dos is a slightly worked over dos 6.2 and is still the same 16 bit real mode thang.
So when you make a boot disk, and format your computer after having a safe boot disk, is this what you're talking about? I'd have to refer to documents, but the true dos mode for win 95/98 is a command.com shell. Windows manages the "command line interface" differently, obviously...The graphics bit in the FAQ here at cprog.com - console won't do graphics, etc.

> there is no DOS in xp.
While I'm not too sure about this, nor doubting it, I'll just say anything is possible.

> all successful dos apps that are graphically intense are written in 32 bit compilers.
The original dos Quake (16 bit) wasn't graphically intense?
Lets see you code it then.

Originally posted by Shadow
WinXP has a command. Go to run, type command, hit enter.
All windows versions have this.

> win 95/98 dos is a slightly worked over dos 6.2 and is still the same 16 bit real mode thang.
So when you make a boot disk, and format your computer after having a safe boot disk, is this what you're talking about? I'd have to refer to documents, but the true dos mode for win 95/98 is a command.com shell. Windows manages the "command line interface" differently, obviously...The graphics bit in the FAQ here at cprog.com - console won't do graphics, etc.

> there is no DOS in xp.
While I'm not too sure about this, nor doubting it, I'll just say anything is possible.

> all successful dos apps that are graphically intense are written in 32 bit compilers.
The original dos Quake (16 bit) wasn't graphically intense?
Lets see you code it then.

quake has always been 32 bit.