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Rod Speed wrote:

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> >> Todd <Post_to_group_only@nospam.com> wrote
>
> >>>> Hardly anyone uses the DOS prompt anymore. Dinosaur stuff.
>
> >>> That's the only place your arguments had
> >>> any meaning! Geez, get with the program.
>
> >> 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.
>

Okay, I'm up for suggestions.  Tell me how can I in one step do the following
command through Windows.

COPY *A*.* C:\TEMP

That is, copy all files with the letter A anywhere in the file name from the
current directory to the temp directory?

>
> > 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.
>

Bullshit!  If Windows will not start, how do you get Windows running again?
Perhaps a reinstall from the boot disk, and if that fails also?  If Windows
is really screwed up, you're going to have to use DOS to either FDISK &/or
FORMAT, or you're going to have to use DELTREE to delete the Windows
directory, or some other *DOS* option.  These are *ALL* DOS commands and
there is no fucking way of doing them through Windows.  When you buy a new
hard drive, how do you partition, through the fucking DOS prompt.  You must
know DOS in order to truly be able to fix all Windows problems!

>
> > 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'
>

It may hardly ever happen on a personal basis, but it happens all of the time
in the real world.  This is part of the reason that Windows is such a large
piece of shit.  Also, you still need to know DOS to partition a drive,
correct.

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

No, it's not a problem at all, it's an extremely good way to go.

This argument is practically over, it's obvious I'm the last one to realize
what a waste of time it is arguing with you.

Ken Williams
kbs@xmission.com