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Tom MacIntyre <tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:37bdfd37.5103514@news1.ns.sympatico.ca...
> Rod Speed <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> wrote
>> Ken, Allison & Baby Andrew Williams <kbs@xmission.com.zz>
>>> Tom MacIntyre wrote:
>>>> Todd <Post_to_group_only@nospam.com> wrote

>>>> Here's where I disagree with both of you...
>>>> DOS is still relevant for me...

>>> I agree completely.  I can do just about anything
>>> in DOS 20 times faster than I can do it in Windows.

>> Thats only because you havent setup the Win properly.

>>> Not to mention the fact that if you can't get into Windows,
>>> you need to know DOS to get Windows working again.

>> Complete crap.

>>> DOS maybe old, but it's still an extremely important thing to know.

>> Wrong, because that hardly ever happens, that you 'cant get into Windows'

>>> I had someone that wanted to come work for me,
>>> the first thing I did was give him a book on DOS.

>> Your problem.

> Well, they still teach DOS in most/many computer certification programs,

Thats just the usual problem, pathetically inadequate course design.
Virtually complete lack of rational analysis of what gets included etc.

> and there are times when a knowledge of DOS will help in the event of a crash.

Yes, but a tiny percentage of the 'times'.

What was being discussed was how to partition the boot drive,
and the use of DOS for normal ops, not that sort of recovery
situation where, because its so rare that you do need to use DOS,
its mad to be doing the partitioning so DOS ops are convenient.

> It is also a basic knowledge of "DOS" that allows setting up of folders,

Trivial to do that without knowing a damned thing about dos prompt ops.

> correctly unzipping files into temporary folders,

Trivial to do that without knowing a damned thing about dos prompt ops.

> and using the Start-Run.

Got SFA to do with what was being discussed, the partitioning
of the boot drive and how that suits dos prompt ops.

> I recently had to look at a laptop computer which had a defective
> video circuit, and was a write-off (no display on its own or external
> VGA port). I was able to get a directory printout and back up some
> files to floppy using DOS... with Windows 3 or 95/98 it would have
> been just about impossible, but with DOS it was easy.

Got SFA to do with what was being discussed, the
partitioning of the boot drive and how that suits dos
prompt ops. It would be completely mad to be partitioning
the hard drive so that sort of rare stuff is more convenient.

> It's starting to look like you're so blinded by the opposition
> you've gotten to some of your ideas that you're lashing out
> without even considering what you're lashing out at.

Its been obvious all along that you cant manage to grasp what was
being discussed, how to partition the boot drive for FAT32 Win9x.