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From: kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.apple2
Subject: Re: MeSsy-DOS
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Date: 8 Oct 90 05:55:31 GMT
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Reply-To: kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski)
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In article <2099@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> alfter@uns-helios.uucp(SCOTT ALFTER) writes:
>Hmm...are you sure that was legal?  Apple (II and Mac) system software is
>fairly loose as far as distribution goes, but MeSsy-DOS is almost like 
>commercial software--in fact, it probably is, considering that some companies
>that sell Apple II stuff sell MeSsy-DOS (for your PC Transporter) for a hefty
>wad of cash (Preferred Computing sells v4.01 for $85, I think).

     I wouldn't get all bent out of shape. Point one, name wise, saying
MeSsy-DOS just implies that it is MS-DOS like, it does not say that it is an
MS-DOS shell nor does it say that it is necessarily trying to be one. This can
be seen pretty simply by the small size of MeSsy-DOS. I downloaded it and
looked at it and it came out to be no more than adding commands dir, online,
cd, and something else to BASIC.SYSTEM, nothing that I couldn't get in DAVEX or
I coulnd't alias by hand. It's still a cute little thing, but hardly something
that would get into a copyright dispute.
     And please, don't get MeSsy-DOS mixed up with MS-DOS. I think the idea is
that the guy named it MeSsy-DOS meaning it's a really simple addition of a
couple MS-DOS like commands to BASIC.SYSTEM. Just because it's a common slang
term doesn't mean that the person who was posting it was implying that it was,
in fact, MS-DOS.

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