home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts
- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: Another MsDos batch programming challenge
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.102311.6851@uwasa.fi>
- Followup-To: alt.religion.computers
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <FRDQB0DG@dri.com> <1992Sep13.194215.24100@cs.ubc.ca> <1992Sep13.225833.1665@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 10:23:11 GMT
- Lines: 21
-
- In article <1992Sep13.225833.1665@cco.caltech.edu> nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu) writes:
- >Once again, MsDos batch programming is such a challenge ONLY because
- >command.com is such a piece of crap.
-
- No disagreement here.
-
- >I have yet to see a batch programming challenge that can't be be done
- >in one line with 4dos (usually).
-
- Right on the button. But can we return to this tack when half, or
- at least 10 per cent, of the 50-100 million command.com users have
- switched to 4DOS. The command.com batch programming challenges are
- not a gauntlet to 4DOS afficionados.
-
- The followups have been redirected to alt.religion.computers.
-
- ..................................................................
- Prof. Timo Salmi
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
- Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
-