Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:08:46 -0800
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From: visick AT ewald DOT mbi DOT ucla DOT edu (Jonathan Visick)
Subject: [opendos] Wishlist 2.0
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a couple comments on the posted Wishlist:

>4] File Descriptions
>14] Add 4DOS's cool stuff
>15] Command history (doskey)

        4dos has done all this so well and for so long and there are so
many great utilities, aliases and batch files for it that I'd vote to *not*
add all this and just keep using 4dos as the command processor.

        Or, in the best of all possible worlds (this is a WISH list,
right?) get Caldera and JPSoft to hammer out an agreement so that an
opendos-enhanced version of 4dos IS command.com!

>12] Make W95 run from OpenDOS

        Isn't this a little like getting people to work together to build a
better performing, finely-tuned, economical engine and then saying you also
want to be able to put it in a Chevy Suburban?  Once you have an improved
version of OpenDOS with pre-emptive multitasking, built-in TCP/IP and
available Internet tools and a graphical menu, what would running Windoze95
do for you besides give you access to a lot of bloated, badly-written
programs?

Jon Visick
visick AT ewald DOT mbi DOT ucla DOT edu