Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 17:40:14 +1200
From: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
Subject: DOS utilities (was Re: A few FS notions)
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Message-id: <199705020540.RAA18892@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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> But this is all a bit pre-emptive. Already we're making suggestions
> about reorganizing the basic filesystem while the OpenDos utils
> are still markedly inferior to MS-DOS's:
>         1) The dir command doesn't give the total bytes allocated
>            in a directory and doesn't recurse
> 
>         2) The EDIT program is very slow [on my 386] ...

Is there somewhere I can upload replacement MOVE, SORT, FDISK, etc
programs for people to beta-test??

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