Novell DOS

Novell DOS

(operating system, product)Novell's fully compatiblealternative to MS-DOS. It is intended as an operating system for workstations on Novell networks. It featuresenhanced memory management that moves the operating system,network drivers, and memory-resident programs (TSRs) outof conventional memory on all systems with an Intel 80286 orlater processor and extended memory or expanded memory.It supports preemptive multitasking and peer-to-peer networking using the same DOS Requester and VLMs for a"common client" with native Novell NetWare.

A data compression utility effectively doubles storagecapacity of the hard disk. It supports diskdefragmentation, a read/write disk cache for betterperformance of both DOS and Microsoft Windows application programs. An undelete utility recovers erased files, even onnetwork drives. It has a complete on-line reference guide,command help, and menu-driven install and setup utilities foreasy configuration changes.

Novell DOS has internal and external commands like MS-DOS.The following commands have been significantly enhanced inNovell DOS: CHKDSK, DISKCOPY, HELP, MEM, REPLACE, UNDELETE,and XCOPY. Novell DOS also includes many new commands such asXDIR, CURSOR, XDEL, TOUCH, SCRIPT, and RENDIR.

Version: 7.

Novell DOS

The name Novell gave to DR-DOS after it acquired it from Digital Research in 1991. Novell added NetWare client support to the product and released it as Novell DOS 7 in 1994. It was later dropped from the product line and then sold to Caldera. See DR-DOS and Caldera.