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From: weave@sun.acs.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
Keywords: future DOS release
Message-ID: <9682@sun.acs.udel.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 90 23:08:37 GMT
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Reply-To: weave@sun.acs.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling)
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In article <53686@microsoft.UUCP> gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon LETWIN) writes:
>Microsoft is working on a major upgrade to DOS and I'd like to solicit
>input from the "power user" communitiy.  I've never met a programmer who
>didn't think that they could have "done it better" with regards to someone
>else's product, so here's an opportunity to enlighten us.
>
PLEASE.... strengthen the batch language... including but not limited to...
 
A way to manipulate env vars, like simple math, upper case strings, etc...
Better loop controls
Subroutines/functions
Better conditional expresions 
 
I'll take anything!

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