X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f X-Recipient: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: "Mike Tripp" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: expand.exe Message-ID: Date: Friday, 30 Oct 2009 07:05:40 -500 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) In-Reply-To: X-Fido-From: Mike Tripp, 1:382/61 X-Fido-To: bob klahn MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Declude-Sender: ccoky AT iglou DOT com [67.131.57.16] X-Declude-Spoolname: 98443499.eml X-Declude-RefID: X-Note: Please send abuse reports to abuse AT fewpb DOT net X-Declude-Note: Scanned by Declude 4.4.0 "http://www.declude.com/x-note.htm" X-Declude-Scan: Outgoing Score [6] at 12:21:04 on 02 Jan 2010 X-Declude-Tests: BADHEADERS [8], DYNHELO [2] X-Country-Chain: UNITED STATES->destination X-Declude-Code: 8010000e X-Declude-Recipcount: 1 Organization: The Electric and Water Plant Board of the City of Frankfort Kentucky X-Identity: 67.131.57.16 | | delorie.com Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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). 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. 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. .\\ike