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- From: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: 4DOS diversion (Was Re: A batch programming contest for you)
- Message-ID: <4082@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 10:55:55 PDT
- References: <1992Aug18.162657.27453@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug19.132543.7617@swlvx2.msd.ray.com>
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- In article <1992Aug19.132543.7617@swlvx2.msd.ray.com>, rgc@swlrau.msd.ray.com (RICK CARLE) writes:
- >
- > ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
- >
- > >The funny side of it is that it is almost predestined that when an
- > >MsDos problem is posed some dedicated soul suggests using 4DOS.
- >
- > On the other hand, the solution to perhaps half the msdos problems seems
- > to be replacement of command.com by 4dos. The solution to half the
- > remaining half is replacement of msdos by drdos. After that you need
- > something like os2v2. So it's not hard to replace msdos, but solving
- > its problems takes 3 programs.
- > Rick
-
-
- I don't agree about that DRDOS part. I just ran DRD6 for a couple of
- days on my PC and was not very happy. Maybe it's me being used to
- MSD5 or something else; anyway it was a delightful experience to find
- out that uninstalling DRD takes less than 30 seconds (plus putting
- back some DOS files which DRDOS kills).
-
- The main thing that I didn't like about DRDOS were a bunch of unpolished
- features. IT DOES have _fantastic_ functionality compared to MS-DOS,
- but when I can't see the size of the files listed with DIR or need
- to remember to NOT place a space between a command and argument in
- SID (their DEBUG copy), or can't list files with the a-attribute bit
- set, or this or that, it's just too much.
-
- Aki.
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