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Filename Description
CPUDET Detects CPU type and displays the result setting an errorlevel.
CSR Either makes the text mode cursor visible or hides it.
DRIVES Displays general information about drives (Available drives, boot drive and LASTDRIVE).
EMUDET Detects the active presence of a virtual or emulated environment.
FASTOPEN Helps to clarify the usage of CONFIG.SYS FASTOPEN statement. For DR-DOS and its sibblings.
HISTORY Helps to clarify the usage of CONFIG.SYS HISTORY statement. For DR-DOS and its sibblings.
IPXCHECK Checks whether IPX (NetWare) services are available or not.
KEYMODET Detects a connected keyboard and mouse availability.
LFNCHECK Indicates whether a Long File Name (LFN) API is present or not.
MACADDR Displays unique network MAC address under NetWare or Alloy NTNX/RTNX.
MORE Tiny replacement for the DOS external command.
NCOMPARE Compares two numbers and evaluates if a condition is met (EQU, LSS, GTR, NEQ, LEQ and GEQ).
PCSA Reports on the PC system architecture (XT, AT or ATX), bus type (ISA, MCA or PCI) and BIOS date.
PKTCHECK Detects the presence of a resident packet driver.
PORTS Lists the system's serial (COM) and parallel (LPT) ports.
SANE All-in-one safe reboot, shutdown, BIOS password reset, drive parking and DOS stabilization.
SEL Artificially sets the DOS return code (errorlevel) to a specified value. Useful for batch files.
VIDEODET Detects video display adapter type and sets an errorlevel (Herc. or MDA, CGA, EGA, VGA, and VBE).

With_Others:

Filename Description
CHOICE Tiny replacement for the DOS external command.
DIMMER Brightens or dimms VGA display output. Hacked binary that improves built-in help.
DOSCLIP DOS clipboard. New copy & paste scan codes, modifed a few text strings, help and text color.
ENVINFO Hacked binary that improves display layout, enhaced built-in text, and added path display.
EXE2BIN Tiny replacement for the DOS external command.
WHAT Returns an errorlevel on the current date and time. Hacked binary with improved built-in help.
MEM Hacked binary that offers to quit in paged mode display (/P), with a more visible separator.
PRN2FILE Prints to a file. Improved built-in help and usage instructions.
SPARROW Updated and bugfixed version of this tiny file manager.
SUPERTED Removed the annoying .BAK file creation from this tiny text editor.

DOS distributions I have supported:

MiNiDOS -> https://archive.org/details/@minidos622

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