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From: ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MSH v. Cross-Dos
Summary: install << 3 hours
Message-ID: <5209@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 26 Feb 90 20:17:12 GMT
References: <90054.115113UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <90054.115113UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>, UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes:
> 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.
> 
I certainly won't argue with our conslusion that two is better than one;
after all, for ages your only real options were PCUtils and DOS-2-DOS, 
neither one of them a very friendly solution IMHO.  In the defence of
MSH, my install time to get it up and running was more on the order of
20 minutes. I certainly don't mean to imply that I'm "smarter" than you
 - maybe I just made a couple of right guesses where you made wrong ones.
I just wanted to mention this lest anyone imply from your message that
MSH doesn't work right - it did for me right off of the wire. I does 
seem to have the strange characteristic of tagging everything that I 
copy to the MS-DOS device as a "DIR", even if it's a file. Oddly 
enough, this has no effect on my ability to read the file (or dir);
everything is tagged as a "dir" by dir or list, but files act like
files, and directories act like directories.  All in all I'd like to
thank the authors for a great contribution to the Amiga community; I've
felt such a product has been needed in the PD for a long time, and even
had hopes of writing such a critter myself, before becomeing hopelessly
lost in the TD_RAW... errors in trackdisk and convincing myself that my
hardware didn't work!......
   Scott Denham
> 
>                        lee