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From:	"-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 97 13:09:22 +0300
Subject:	Re: ClosedDOS???
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nuqneH,

> From: Christopher Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
> Message-Id: <97Sep12.094338gmt+0100 DOT 11690 AT internet01 DOT amc DOT de>
> Subject: Re: ClosedDOS???
> To: ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:48:51 +0100

[dd]

> > Not a bad thing but it can't do:
> > a good vt100 emulation
>
> If I want it I use vt102.com as a TSR instead of ANSI.SYS.  And there's a
> variant with multi-screen VT102 emulation built in.

Yep,i use it too but i can't call it "a _good_ vt100 emulation".
vt102 is my default console driver.

> [PCDOS]
>
> > First,it is not M$.
>
> I don't really care.  They have my money already for 6.22, and aren't
> going to give it back, why should I spend even more money on another
> version which may not be fully compatible?  (I'm not saying that PCDOS
> is incompatible, just that I don't know what it's like.)

It is (unlike OpenDOS) _really_ 100% compatible.

> > Second,it has rexx and some other features..
>
> I have rexx for DOS, three versions (at least two of which are enhanced
> compared to the OS/2 version).  I rarely use it, I use awk (and occasionally
> Perl) which is compatible with Unix, where most of my effort goes.

Actually i do the same..

[dd]

> Which other features does PCDOS have that I don't already have?

Utility set that is much better than M$ - compressed filesystem (Stacker),
disk defragmentation software (Central Point) other things like that..

> Multi-
> tasking?  That would be something which could attract me, if it was done
> properly.

Nope.. They made OS/2 for that.. but i don't like it.

> > Speaking on M$ versions,i'd prefer 5.0 - much better than 6.22..
>
> Why?  I'm not trying to be contentious, I'm interested in what you see as
> deficiencies in 6.22.  I upgraded from 5.0, you see, and I saw it as an
> upgrade.

Hmm and what new features have you got? I just could not get the "upgrade"
feeling..

> (Best continued by email, I suspect).

Hmm the talk on misc DOS versions and features is [indirectly] OpenDOS -
related,am i wrong? If somebody here thinks it's offtopic we'll take it
off the list..

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