To: crough45 AT amc DOT de Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com References: <97Sep12.094338gmt+0100 DOT 11690 AT internet01 DOT amc DOT de> Message-Id: Organization: International Brownian Movement From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" Date: Fri, 12 Sep 97 13:09:22 +0300 Subject: Re: ClosedDOS??? Lines: 70 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk nuqneH, > From: Christopher Croughton > 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.. --- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Must be a visit from the dead.. _| o |_ | | _|| | / _||_| |_ |_ |_ CU in Hell .......... Arkan#iD |_ o _||_| _||_| / _| | o |_||_||_|