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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MSH v. Cross-Dos
Message-ID: <90054.115113UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 16:51:13 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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Let's see.  Cross-Dos.  $30, it comes in the mail, and it works.

MSH.  Free.  Your wife scowls at you for an hour while you download it.
When you try the msdos format command, you follow standard Amiga command
line syntax, which results in MSH reformatting your systems boot disk.
You switch to your backup, make a new working copy.  You put all the
right files in the right place, it doesn't work, you read c.s.a for awhile,
wizards are also having problems.  They suggest things, you try them,
eventually it seems to work.  Estimated trouble time over and above RTFMing,
3 hours.

You compare $30 to 3 hours in your life, and decide which is the better
deal.  Hey, I've seen C-D for sale used for $15.

I hope Cross-Dos remains viable as a commercial product.  MSH is fine.
I hope I can get it to work.  I receive pointless fiddling hobby-time
credits when I try to use it, but if I had work to do, I'd buy
Cross-Dos.

Hmmmm.  It occurs to me that I might be flaming.  Sorry.  I guess I am just
reacting to the statement that MSH will crush Cross-Dos.  I hope not.
Two is better than one.

                       lee