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From: kmcvay@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca (Ken McVay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DR DOS 5.0 (was Re: dos 3.3 or 4.01)
Summary: Don't overlook security features unavailable in DOS
Keywords: password,security
Message-ID: <1991Jun05.200857.26326@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 5 Jun 91 20:08:57 GMT
References: <1991May21.181113.27112@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <12990006@hplsla.HP.COM> <WNN3G4V@dri.com>
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In article <WNN3G4V@dri.com> frotz@dri.com writes:

>Command help for one.  C:\> DIR/H gives you something rational about
>how to use DIR...  The same for most (if not all) other commands in DR
>DOS.  Granted.  You probably don't need this. 
>Nifty-whiz-bang-setup utility for quick reconfiguration...  Again, it
>doesn't sound like you *need* this. 
>FILELINK.  Our response to an OS supplied lap-link...
>A rational TREE command.
>
>I would expect that they big gains are in memory management for
>_people_who_don't_already_have_it_...  I would also say that the
>comparison is against vanilla DOS 3.3 or 4.01... 
>
>We are not comparing vanilla operating systems with add-ons, we are
>comparing operating systems to like operating systems. 

Let's not overlook the PASSWORD functions either - 

         Switch        Affect on file
--------------------   --------------
PASSWORD /R:password - required for reading, copying, writing,
		       deleting, renaming, changing attrib's
	/W:password  - file can be read without password, but pwd
		       required for copy, delete, rename or change
		       attributes
	/D:password  - required only for deleting or renaming 
	 	       file - don't need pwd for read, modify, or
		       change attrib's
	/P:password  - password operates on subdirs instead of files
	/G:password  - sets GLOBAL default password

- or the cache
- or the added CHKDSK switches
- or the DELQ/ERAQ "delete with query" commands
- or the FIND command (searches for strings of char's in a group of
  text files and displays lines containing them)
- or the REPLACE function
- or the SHARE command.... which isn't needed to support large drives,
  since the o/s already has built-in support for them, unlike DOS,
  which forces you to use SHARE whether you need it (LANS, etc) or not..
- or TOUCH
- or XDEL, which can remove empty subdirs, delete multiple files in
  subdirs and then del the subdir, and which enhances security by
  permitting you to force "overwrite before delete" to make SURE the
  file is completely erased, permanently...
- or the enhance debugger, full-screen, WS-compat. editor, etc.

DOS? Phooey :-)


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