X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f X-Recipient: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: "bob klahn" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: expand.exe Message-ID: Date: Sunday, 01 Nov 2009 18:14:00 -0600 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) X-Fido-From: bob klahn, 1:124/311 X-Fido-To: MIKE TRIPP 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: 98443498.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 [9] 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 Originally to: MIKE TRIPP MT> Hello bob! MT> 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. MT> I used Q-DOS as my shell "training wheels" to transition MT> from the CP/M commandline to the DOS commandline (COPY had MT> so many more switches than PIP...and then there was the MT> option to XCOPY and more/different switches also). Like I started with the DOS command line, then went to Xtree. MT> your favorite text editor, the hotkey strokes eventually MT> flow like stream of consciousness and newcomers have to be MT> mighty impressive to preempt "old faithful". So I remember MT> tinkering with Xtree and being impressed, but not enough to MT> discard my Q-DOS mastery to switch over...and I was pretty MT> self-sufficient at the commandline by that time also. Only Xtree is reincarneted for 32 bit as Ztree. Is Q-dos still around in any form? ... MT> archives in the file areas specifically, but even to this MT> day I still fire up Q-DOS from time to time when I need to MT> study/prune/graft directory trees on the Netware 3.11 MT> server from DOS, OS2, or XP without waiting for several MT> minutes for GUIs to build a map. I still use Xtree when I am doing some work from Dos, like running Norton Ghost, or System commander. BOB KLAHN bob DOT klahn AT sev DOT org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn ... * <- Tribble. *<--> <- Tribble Hood, Prince of Thieves. * Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg]