Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!opal!tmpmbx!netmbx!cosheff From: cosheff@netmbx.UUCP (Charles Shefflette) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Where is the long awaited MS DOS 5.0 ? Message-ID: <1630@netmbx.UUCP> Date: 3 Jan 91 23:02:58 GMT References: <13523@milton.u.washington.edu> <1990Dec29.171755.25340@xrtll.uucp> <965@macuni.mqcc.mq Organization: netmbx, Berlin, West Germany Lines: 46 ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) writes: >In article <1990Dec31.201117.26371@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes: >>In article <965@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> mallsop@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Mark Allsop) writes: >>>In article <1990Dec29.171755.25340@xrtll.uucp> silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver) writes: >>>} >---------------------------------------------------- >Come on, people. If this is to be a UNIX/DOS flame war, please rename the >subject as such. Not that this kind of exchange ever changed anyones mind... > -ted- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I second the motion, I'm quite tired of hearing this argument over which is better *NIX or **-DOS. I have to work with BOTH of the plus several other operating systems at work EVERY day. Each of the systems has its good and bad points. When it comes right down to it, each provides the same basic functions, they are just implemented slightly differently. In general, if you don't like the command/user interface provided with a system, it is almost always possible to adjust the interface to provide you with one you can live with. In my case, I have created REXX execs in my IBM Mainframe account to give me a relatively good impression of using a *NIX system ( such as ls, rm, mv, etc...) The don't work exactly as their *NIX counterparts, but hey, it isn't *NIX! By the same token, my PC at home and the one on my desk at work are both using LEGAL copies of 4DOS. It provides enough flexibility to make it act almost truly like a *NIX system if that's what you want - right down to using '/' as a path separator and '-' as the switch character! If you really are worried about navigating a file system and care which drive you are using, try the DOS JOIN command, it's MUCH like the '/etc/mount' command on a *NIX system and provides EXACTLY the same sort of service: it directs access to a physical device to a logical path! In short, it really isn't worth the net bandwidth arguing about an issue which is really up to the individual who has to USE the system. What the heck, even the Macintosh OS has its good points... Cheers! Chuck Charles Shefflette, System Engineer cosheff@netmbx.UUCP cosheff@bitcave.UUCP (US Mail) ==================================== Box 9086 USAFSB | Off Switch? WHAT Off Switch??? | APO New York, NY 09742-4824 |===================================