# About FreeDOS:

      FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC
      compatible systems, made of up many different, separate programs
      that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project. FreeDOS
      aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating
      system (mostly achieved except Windows compatibility - Windows
      standard-mode works on FreeDOS, but 386-mode / WfW 3.11 does
      not.) A short list of things possible with FreeDOS today:
         * Easy multiboot with Win95-2003 and NT/XP/ME,
         * FAT32 file system and large disk support (LBA),
         * LFN support (with several tools, and FREECOM (COMMAND.COM)),
         * LBACACHE - disk cache (harddisks in CHS and LBA mode, diskette),
         * Memory Managers: (HIMEM), (EMM386), UMBPCI, HIMEMX, JEMM386,
           JEMMEX,
         * SHSUCDX (MSCDEX replacement) and CD-ROM driver (XCDROM.SYS) /
           UIDE.SYS,
         * CUTEMOUSE - Mouse driver with scroll wheel support,
         * FDAPM - APM info/control/suspend/poweroff, ACPI throttle, HLT
           energy saving,
         * (XDMA.SYS) - (UDMA.SYS) - UIDE.SYS driver for DOS: up to
            4 harddisks. UIDE.SYS also supports SATA,
         * MPXPLAY - media player for mp3, ogg, wmv... with built-in AC97
           and SB16 drivers,
         * 7ZIP, INFO-ZIP zip and unzip... - modern archivers are available
           for DOS,
         * EDIT / SETEDIT - multi window text editors,
         * HTMLHELP - help viewer, can read help directly from a zip file,
         * PG - powerful text viewer (similar to V. D. Buerg's LIST),
         * many text mode programs ported from Linux thanks to DJGPP,
         * GRAPHICS - greyscale hardcopy on ESC/P, HP PCL and PostScript
           printers,
         * NLS Support: Help (" /? ") to the commands can be shown in
           different languages (not at all commands),
         * etc.
      FreeDOS itself has NO graphic user interface (GUI). If you want to
      shutdown your computer, simply close the program you are working with
      and press the "power off" button.

## See also:

      http://www.freedos.org

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      Copyright © 2008 Jim Hall, updated 2011 by W. Spiegl.

      This file is derived from the FreeDOS Spec Command HOWTO.
      See the file H2Cpying for copying conditions.