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From: albertw@chips.com (Albert Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.0 Tech Ref Manual Available?
Message-ID: <2736@news.chips.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 19:26:51 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.213552.16404@netcom.COM> <1991Jun13.044333.22544@cbnewsd.att.com> <91164.154112MXL4@psuvm.psu.edu>
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In article <91164.154112MXL4@psuvm.psu.edu> MXL4@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>How do things like the shell, file system, etc., compare to the version
>available under IBMDOS 4.00?

The shell is much better than the Dos 4.x shell.  It has some task swapping
(not multitasking) features too.  The undelete, mirror utilities are
licensed from Central Point Software.  I wonder why Microsoft didn't
license the PC-Tools Shell, either? :)