Hello
I have a question
How do you open SYS files (.SYS) in DOS

That's my question.. My English is not very good so I'm writing short topics

Greeettzz LarsYou don't "open" them. They are system files which MS-DOS loads at boot time.
In the days of MS-Dos MSDOS.SYS was a plain text file which could be opened/edited using a plain text editor such as Edit.com or Notepad.exe (Win 9x/ME). If your operating system is an NT variant, forget it, .sys files LOOK like binaries.

So there's no way to start them?Quote from: Larssie111 on February 08, 2009, 06:26:18 AM

So there's no way to start them?

YOU don't start .sys files... YOU don't open system files.... YOU don't edit system files.....that's why they are called "System files".
They are started by the system, often thru a program like Config.sys

Now, if you put a .sys file, like Himem.sys in a config.sys file, which you can create or edit, then the system will run it when it boots (in DOS).

Edit.com in DOS or Notepad in Windows can be used to create or edit a Config.sys file.
But even if you create and/or edit a Config.sys file, YOU don't start it......DOS will start it when it boots up the computer.

I hope that helps!

Shadow

In the days of MS-Dos MSDOS.SYS was a plain text file which could be opened/edited using a plain text editor such as Edit.com or Notepad.exe (Win 9x/ME). If your operating system is an NT variant, forget it, .sys files look like binaries.