DROS
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Startup message of DROS V0.5/July 10th, 2006 running on a Nokia 6630 smartphone.
DROS is a DOS like shell or CLI with BASIC interpreter computer program written using the J2ME Platform. Dros was created to add command line functionality to smart phones such as the Nokia N70 or Sony Ericsson M600. DROS was created in November 2005 by Whoredoeuvre.
[edit] DROS Commands
Wildcards can be used with a number of the commands and commands can be used in batch files as a scripting language for the interface.
- cd: Change directory1
- copy: Copy file
- move: Move file
- dir: List directory
- del: Delete file/directory
- mkdir: Make directory
- dial: Dial number
- cls: Clear screen
- pf: Print file
- run: Run BASIC file
- <drive>: Change drive
- edit: Edit text file
- <file>.bat: Run batch file
- bcolor: Set background colour
- fcolor: Set foreground colour
- time: Print time
- play: Play media
- ftp: ftp client
- ?: Help
[edit] DROS BASIC
DROS BASIC has a rich feature set of 42 functions that may be used. One of the more unique features is the lack of the array variable type, which has been replaced by the use of Vectors. File handling and graphics support are included as well as numerous string manipulation functions.
