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From: bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0
Message-ID: <29299@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 17 May 91 18:25:02 GMT
References: <1991May16.174140.26161@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991May17.161025.10599@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <1991May17.161025.10599@nntp-server.caltech.edu> heathh@kanga (Heath Ian Hunnicutt) writes:

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>	 The most disturbing thing about DOS-5.0 is it's new HELP command.  The
>        command brings up stuff like: 
>C:\>HELP DIR
>DIR /wp  [d:][filespec]
>
>	Yahoo!  On the other hand, you can't get rid of it, even if you don't load  
>command.com.  i.e., HELP overrides 4DOS's internal (and much better) HELP  
>command.  Coincidence, or deliberate annoyance of command.com haters? 
>

The Dos 5.0 help is an exe program.  To get 4DOS's version of help just make 
sure that your path specifies your 4dos directory before it specifies your DOS
directory.  (boy, that bugged me too! :-)

As far as deliberate annonyance of command.com haters.......  
[getting on soapbox]

I found it really anonying that the installation program deleted my shell=
statement and replaced it with a shell statement to invoke command.com.  They
could of at least REM'ed out the old statement so you could change it back
easily, but nooooooooooo! they delete the line so you have dig through your
manuals to find out what the shell statement should be.  I don't understand
why Micro$oft doesn't just buy out J. P. Software (the authors of 4dos) and
ship 4dos with DOS 5.0. It's obvious that they'll never be able to catch up.

[getting off soapbox]

-- 
Scott Bostater      Georgia Tech Research Institute - Radar Systems Analysis
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