DOS Applications
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Notation: -commercial, -shareware, - GNU GPL (licensed, but costless)

System, file managers, viewers

Caldera Open Dos 7.01 -- MS DOS replacement (successor of DR DOS and Novell DOS)
File Wizard -- a free Norton Commander clone
Volkov Commander -- modest size NC clone (the best choice for service floppies)
Dos Navigator -- very sophisticated NC clone (better than the original!)
View -- show/convert different word processor formats (including WinWord 6)
QuickView -- picture viewer
LFNsort -- Directory Sort, works with long filenames created by Win95

Network terminal connection

NCSA Telnet -- TCP/IP based telnet/ftp connection and remote printing
Mini Linux,
DOS Linux,
Monkey Linux,
Xdenu -- small Linux systems (in a DOS partition) also acting as X terminals
Xappeal -- X terminal emulator under DOS

Text editors

Pedit -- text editor
Joe -- text editor, similar to WordStar
Vim -- an improved vi editor (standard in Unix) clone
TeX -- document formatting and typesetting program

Program languages

Awk -- simple but effective interpreting style language (dream of lazy programmers!)
Perl -- Practical Extraction and Report generating Language (widely used)
FPK-Pascal -- Pascal compiler, more or less compatible with Turbo Pascal 7.0
djgpp -- a GNU C/C++ compiler adopted for DOS
f2c -- FORTRAN 77 to C compiler (works together with GNU C compiler)
Euphoria -- a very simple language (comes with many example programs)

Graphics

Gnuplot -- interactive diagram creating software
GLE -- interactive diagram creator program
PrintGL -- shows and prints HP-GL files
GhostScript GPL -- PostScript interpreter and converter program
Acroread -- viewer for the Adobe Acrobat PDF files

Diagnostics

ASMdemo shareware -- hardware system information
Hwinfo shareware -- hardware system information
DrHard hardware -- hardware system information

File archiving and compressing utilities

Note, that only gzip+tar and LHA are free for official use (at work).
Please, read carefully the license agreement of each product!

gzip GPL -- GNU compressor (dislike other compressor, this works only with one file)
tar GPL -- the adaptation of the standard UNIX archiving utility
lha -- freeware file compressor/decompressor
arj shareware -- file compressor/decompressor
pkzip shareware --the most widely used file compressor
rar shareware -- a russian file compression/decompression program
ain -- yet another compressor/decompressor
hdcopy -- floppy formatting and archiving program