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"Rod Speed" <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

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>Hyper <jimb@snip.net> wrote in message news:37C07159.BF9F18F1@snip.net...
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>>>> At the DOS prompt,
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>>> Hardly anyone uses the DOS prompt anymore. Dinosaur stuff.
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>> actually i use a dos prompt every single day, at least once,
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>Even you should be able to grasp that 'hardly
>anyone' allows for a small number who do use it.

True...

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>> as do almost all techs when having to troubleshoot
>> drive problems and windows problems,
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>Even you should be able to grasp that they are a tiny subset
>of the total Win users. Adequately covered by the 'hardly anyone'

This "tiny subset" consists of those who solve others' problems with
Windows, and/or their own, and is hardly to be dismissed in such
fashion.

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>And its completely juvenile to be hacking off the quoting where its
>abundandly clear that what was being discussed there was furiously
>bashing away at the DOS prompt on a working Win9x system, NOT whats
>done with an unbootable system or say when installing a new hard drive.

This is where you have backed down from an unequivocal stance to a
more flexible, yet still unyielding, one.

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>> so ha
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>Pathetic really.
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>>>> I can go from a directory three levels deep on one
>>>> drive, to a directory five levels deep on another drive.
>>>> I can go back and forth just by typing the drive letter.
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>>> And its even easier with shortcuts etc. The world's moved on.
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>> not really,
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>Yep, really. Single mouse click in fact.

Only after both of these directories have been opened, and kept open,
in Windows, is the back-and-forth possible with a single click...the
intuitiveness of the Windows interface compared to DOS will not be
questioned/refuted by me, but a competent DOS practitioner/user can do
this type of activity just as fast as any Windows user...that's an
opinion, as I've never seen it tested, except in practice, by myself.
My DOS is quite rusty, but I can still "get around" through a
directory structure and with multiple partitions quite handily, and
more quickly than with Windows in cases where these directories have
many files. Windows wins on the energy expenditure issue.

Someone made a statement somewhere in this thread about the
uselessness of analogies (or something to that effect). I disagree,
and here's one. My local library has been fully computer-referenced
for quite some time, and yet the card catalog remains, and is still
used. This is, to me, a similar situation. Are you saying that those
who continue to use the card catalog have a problem? Are you saying
that those housewives who use a recipe box on index cards rather than
having a handy, flour-encrusted notebook computer on their kitchen
counter have a problem? Computers are tools/aids, and the way they are
used is ultimately up to the individual. I for one, am glad that I
took the time to read Peter Norton's DOS Guide about 6 or 7 times when
my brother loaned it to me back in 1990...like A&E. it was time well
spent...

Tom