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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:03:20 +1200 (NZST)
From: Eric Gillespie <viking AT flying-brick DOT caverock DOT net DOT nz>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Suggestions for DR-DOS
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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Charles Dye wrote:

:Eric Gillespie <viking AT flying-brick DOT caverock DOT net DOT nz> writes:
:[...blather...]
:>but find that chain and goto seems to work well enough for light use
:>(4 options, one starting a bare system)
:
:Ah, now I understand what was meant.  "Light use" hell, the DR DOS
:multi-config commands are a good deal more powerful and flexible than
:Microsoft's.  Not as pretty, but more genuinely useful.

I say "light use" because I haven't applied it to any "heavy use" menuing
systems yet, so haven't been able to evaluate that.

:That's Microsoft's strong suite.  They do "pretty" very well.  Windows 98
:is extremely pretty.  Not fast, not reliable, not compact.  But pretty.

Pretty - yes.  (At least, this is my experience with Win 95).  I would have to
agree with you on this one - it does seem relatively well laid out (though I
wish I could even *RUN* X on my system).  I even got used to the Close
Application button being shifted from Win 3.x position after a wee while.
Though I don't like the way IE4 seems to put its hooks into everything in
sight just to provide a "unified" interface...

And I could agree that Win 95 is slow...what does it _have_ in it that takes
so long to fire up? I.E. over four minutes on a 486 DX 100 (ISA bus IDE) 
before I can even start a program of my own ...  Even my version of Linux is
quicker than that and does a lot more!  Yeah sure it doesn't look as pretty in
console mode, but just try doing this with a mouse...: 

sed 's/<.[:+"?&A-Za-z0-9.= #~,_;%\/\-]*>//g' old.html > new.txt

If someone could suggest any improvements (this won't even WORK under
COMMAND.COM, but it does under bash - something to do with handling the " 
symbol), I'd be pleased to hear them...and just for the uninitiated, it's a
script to strip the majority of HTML from a file...i.e. <a href...>

Anyway, enough chewing the fat...

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