Editing DOS Shell (section)

==Overview==
DOS Shell was one of the first successful attempts to create a basic [[graphical user interface]] (GUI) type file manager in DOS, although it is properly referred to as a [[text user interface]] (TUI) or Character-Oriented Windows (COW) even though graphical modes were available on supported hardware ([[Video Graphics Array|VGA]]-equipped PCs). The shell is very much like a DOS version of [[File Manager (Windows)|File Manager]] found in Windows up to versions [[Windows 3.11|3.11]] and [[Windows NT 3.51|NT 3.51]], and [[File Explorer]] on later versions.

An early incarnation of DOS Shell, titled [[MS-DOS Manager]], was bundled exclusively with the [[Zenith Eazy PC|Eazy PC]], an IBM PC clone manufactured by [[Zenith Data Systems]] in 1987.<ref name="Mace_1987"/>

In MS-DOS 4.x and 5.x, the program was implemented as [[COM file]] (<code>DOSSHELL.COM</code>). In MS-DOS 6 the executable had an [[.EXE]] [[filename extension]] (<code>DOSSHELL.EXE</code>).<ref name="Hope_2018"/>