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From: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading MS-DOS Disks on the Amiga
Summary: Using dos2dos brings home that "wonderful" taste of IBM
Keywords: MS-DOS Disk <-> Amiga, worst commercial amiga software, spam
Message-ID: <4285@spudge.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 89 18:39:27 GMT
References: <20254@usc.edu> <20334@usc.edu>
Reply-To: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch)
Organization: Friends of Guru Bob
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In article <20334@usc.edu> acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu) writes:
>4. Dos2dos
>   This is another commercial program that lets you do that.  I have
>little information on this one though.

If I had thought that no one else would reply then I would have already.

Put as simply as possible, DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.  I have the misfortune
of owning it and find that not only is it buggy, it is also slow, intolerant
of minor drive errors, and has a syntax that shows such complete laziness
that I really cannot believe that this is a commercial product.  It is the
second worst piece of commercial software I've ever seen*.

It will abort copies of multiple files midway if it has a disk error, asks
yes/no questions that will only take one response, handles typeahead badly
or not at all, etc.  Even MS-DOS is better than this, and that is the worst
criticism I can imagine...

Buy CrossDos and thank god for the day it was written.

John Munsch

* The worst piece of commercial software I've ever seen was Lattice C for 
the Atari ST, which was so bad that a shareware compiler written by one man 
on an Atari ST with one(!) floppy drive and 512K out performed it.  The code 
it produced was SOOO buggy and SOOO slow that I'm amazed that Lattice 
has never issued a formal public apology and refunded the money of 
everyone who ever even thought of buying it.  To this day, I have cold chills
when I remember that linker.