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Originally to: bob klahn

Hello bob!

28 Oct 09 20:33, bob klahn wrote to MIKE TRIPP:

 bk>  Do you remember Xtree? I use a 32 bit version called Ztree.
 bk>  Ztree.com to find it.

 bk>  Ztree has a batch builder function that can automate writing the
 bk>  batch file to do the conversion.

 bk>  If you like Dos you will like Ztree, and Xtree.

I used Q-DOS as my shell "training wheels" to transition from the CP/M 
commandline to the DOS commandline (COPY had so many more switches than 
PIP...and then there was the option to XCOPY and more/different switches 
also<g>).  Like your favorite text editor, the hotkey strokes eventually flow 
like stream of consciousness and newcomers have to be mighty impressive to 
preempt "old faithful".  So I remember tinkering with Xtree and being impressed, 
but not enough to discard my Q-DOS mastery to switch over...and I was pretty 
self-sufficient at the commandline by that time also.

The major advantage, that I recall being interested in myself, was being able to 
navigate inside the various archiver formats.  Q-DOS didn't do that, as it 
predated most of the archivers.<g>  Eventually SHEZ made it down the filebone 
and filled that niche nicely for maintaining archives in the file areas 
specifically, but even to this day I still fire up Q-DOS from time to time when 
I need to study/prune/graft directory trees on the Netware 3.11 server from DOS, 
OS2, or XP without waiting for several minutes for GUIs to build a map.<g>

.\\ike

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