Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!csd.uwo.ca!crispin From: crispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? (or: What is the definition of obsolete) Message-ID: <2035@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Date: 13 Jan 91 07:31:33 GMT References: <11234@lanl.gov> Sender: news@ria.ccs.uwo.ca Organization: University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Lines: 21 In article <11234@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: [people should use a reg. ex. library call instead of a utility] Why? How are we to invoke this function? Is it to be mandated that every application provide access to every available sys-call in the OS? Ugh, extreme software bloat; a different interface to grep for every different application. >Come to think of it - there are free public domain versions of the >utilities themselves available for MS-DOS users. Most MS-DOS users >don't bother to get copies because they aren't worth the disk space they >take up. Hardly. The tools being discussed are not general; they are SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT tools, and anyone doing software development in DOS should have them on their DOS box. Accountants, on the otherhand, have no more need for software tools than I do of an accounting package. Crispin ----- Crispin Cowan, CS grad student, University of Western Ontario Work: MC28-C, x3342 crispin@csd.uwo.ca 890 Elias St., London, Ontario, N5W 3P2, ---> Support the GST: Canada's first fair tax <---