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From: ckindel@cs.arizona.edu (Charles E. Kindel, Jr. [Tigger])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
Summary: More suggestions:
Keywords: future DOS release
Message-ID: <231@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 90 20:03:19 GMT
References: <53686@microsoft.UUCP> <9682@sun.acs.udel.edu>
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Organization: SIE Dept. University of Arizona
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In article <9682@sun.acs.udel.edu>, weave@sun.acs.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:
> 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 
>  

Gordon,

Take a look at 4DOS 3.0 for _the_right_way_ to do a command processor.

Another important thing, to me at least, is memory usage.  DOS 4.0 is TOO big
for me (I still use 3.3).  Keep this "major upgrade" small!

Glad to see you guys are looking out here....

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