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From: brigc@world.std.com (Brig C McCoy)
Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.040214.7871@world.std.com>
Followup-To: Billy Gates
Summary: IMHO...
Keywords: MSDOS 5.0
Organization: Soft-tek International, Wichita, KS
References: <bcorrie.676744442@csr>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 04:02:14 GMT
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In article <bcorrie.676744442@csr> bcorrie@csr (Brian  Corrie) writes:
>Hello folks,
>
>I'm a newbie to the IBM PC world, and have heard a bit about version 5.0.
>Can someone tell me about what it offers that earlier versions do not.
>Maybe a reference to a publication or two that have reviews of it.
>

[...]

>                  Brian Corrie (bcorrie@csr.uvic.ca)

Check the 10 June issue of PC Week and the current issue of InfoWorld for
particulars, but here's a quick look at the new stuff that I like:

Three utilities purchased from Central Point Software...
   MIRROR     - Duplicates the FAT table, allowing recovery from some drive
                problems.
   UNDELETE   - Like the name says... works pretty good.
   UNFORMAT   - Lets you unformat a disk if somebody goofs up.

Several other additions...
   DOSSHELL   - Much improved DOS shell... much better than the piece of
                caca in DOS 4.01, still no competition for MAC interface.
   EDIT       - An almost acceptable text editor... no more EDLIN!
   HELP       - On-line help utility for most commands.
   DEVICEHIGH & 
   LOADHIGH   - Lets you load device drivers and programs into "high"
                memory (above 640K).
   DOSKEY     - Command-line editing and macros.
   QBASIC     - Subset of Quick Basic... big improvement over BASICA/GW-BASIC.
   SETVER     - Lets DOS lie to stupid programs... if they require a specific
                version of DOS, this lets DOS say it's Version 3.3, or 
                whatever.


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