MSDOS or PCDOS versions 2.0 or greater.To find out more, read the rest of this manual, or, (If you are like me) just start running it and see what it does. It is many good things which users have requested. It is a visual directory maintenance tool with pointer and single character menu driven interface. PFM is a “Front End” for the DOS command processor. It is used to make common file maintenance chores easier and faster. PFM is a personal file management system to help you to deal with DOS. Waiting for machine 'ibm5160-pcdos200' to load. PFM.COM is version 3.14 with an internal date of February 14, 1991, and according to Microsoft Word, PFM.DOC

Mode and then save it as plain text, which I’ve pasted below and modified slightly for the proper display on the website. Using a modern version of Word, I was able to load the file in Compatibility The manual was a Microsoft Word document. I guess you could have the source code if you wanted it as well, let me know.įYI Ted Emerson (still works for HP in Houston) took the source code and adapted it to the win32 APIs andĬreated a version that runs on Windows, the last time I spoke with him he said he still uses it to this day.

MSDOS, it only runs on MSDOS VMs or 32-bit versions of Windows that still have the MSDOS compatibility layer It evolved over the early years a bit but stagnated when Windows XP became popular. I think the rewrite worked out much better. Them, so I had to start over, when I started working for Compaq. When I left TI, they claimed everything I wrote belonged to TI Personal computer (in some ways similar to the IBM PC) I wanted to be able to use MSDOS a bit easier, It had the same basic screen layout, but many fewer commands. They had a program called DFM which ran on the 990 minicomputers which was in some respects a precursor I wrote PFM back in the late 1980s because I am a poor typist. In October 2018, I contacted the author, Paul Culley, who provided a brief history of PFM: It to a 3.5-inch diskette, which I’ve archived at PCjs. With the help of a few other engineers (Jeff and Ted), we were able to copy Program called PFM, aka “Paul’s File Manager”.

(Norm) brought an old COMPAQ Portable LTE/486, which contained a copy of an internally developed – and fondly remembered – On June 19, 2018, during an informal COMPAQ reunion of former COMPAQ engineers in Houston, one of them Home of the original IBM PC emulator for browsers.

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