Microsoft's disk operating system, MS-DOS was a very widely used operating system on the PC compatible platform until recently. It has gradually been replaced on consumer desktop computers with various generations of the Windows operating system. It was originally released in 1981 and had eight major versions before Microsoft stopped development in 2000.

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question by brians | Moderate

I have a small application running on MS-DOS 7.0
Is there a way to password protect the system?
Such as a login prompt?
or, password utility?

Thanks
Brian

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Re: password protect dos

answer by Abels

as far as I know,
DOS security protection were terrible,
Except, if you have Windows XP(sp2)
or other NTos as your OS,
You can protect them (the folder)
by its security system,
and it safe from DOS access.

If, your OS was DOS (ver 7) itself,
the only way to protect it by external software.
anyway you can try this link...

http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/msdos.security.undef.html
(but I haven?t try it yet.)

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