Dos or Do's and Don'ts

[niemeyjt]

Just updating some documentation and came across "Do's and Don'ts"

Surely Dos is correct. What do others use?

[RobertArthur]

@ Niemeyjt, DOS worked okay for me. The only problem was that for subtle fine tuning I sometimes had to use a brute force method, powertools. A total of 1275 pages and on the included floppy disk: "Over 200 Powerful Ready-to-Run Utilities, written by the nation's leading assembly-language programmers."

[niemeyjt]

FreeDOS is still around - https://freedos.org/

And my virtualisation software supports it if I ever feel that masochistic!

And for those who prefer the rival CP/M-86 - http://www.cpm.z80.de/

Who knows what might have happened were it not for those flying lessons!

[exile]

Collins seems to be happy with both Dos and Do's, with perhaps a slight suggestion that in English and American English an apostrophe should be used.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... -and-donts

Clearly that breaks the apostrophe rules but I guess that's what you get when you use verbs as nouns.

For me a do (noun) is a party of some sort.

[niemeyjt]

Collins seems to be happy with both Dos and Do's, with perhaps a slight suggestion that in English and American English an apostrophe should be used.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... -and-donts

Clearly that breaks the apostrophe rules but I guess that's what you get when you use verbs as nouns.

For me a do (noun) is a party of some sort.

So if you were off to several parties, are they dos or do's?

[exile]

Dos - quite clearly.

[rabbit]

FreeDOS is still around - https://freedos.org/

And my virtualisation software supports it if I ever feel that masochistic!

And for those who prefer the rival CP/M-86 - http://www.cpm.z80.de/

Who knows what might have happened were it not for those flying lessons!

I met Gary Kildall in Monterey. He told me the airplane story was not true!