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From: laughner@news.nd.edu (Tom laughner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3 criticism
Message-ID: <453@news.nd.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 90 22:13:03 GMT
References: <GERRY.90Sep27113210@onion.frc.ri.cmu.edu>
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame
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From article <GERRY.90Sep27113210@onion.frc.ri.cmu.edu>, by gerry@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston):
> In article <3401@gmdzi.gmd.de> strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
> 
> ...  They want everyone to use Windows
> applications and to never to see C>.  This is the case with
> the Mac, and this is what I am so very afraid of.  I don't
> want my user-extensible, infinitely flexible interface taken
> away because GUI's are the "in thing" which will solve every-
> ones computer problems.
>
A MS support line person told me yesterday in response to problems I was
having getting a DOS application to launch from Windows "you could launch
it from the DOS prompt."  Interesting, eh?

Tom Laughner
DOS Consultant/Analyst
University of Notre Dame
TLAUGHNE@IRISHVMA