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Article #1191Re: 4-DOS vs COMMAND.COM
From: James Hague
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 15:55
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 15:55
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Amit J. Patel writes: > >Well... I don't see many people still using EDLIN as their editor. Why >does everyone use COMMAND.COM as their command processor? True, 4DOS *is* a great improvement over COMMAND.COM, one which I can no longer live without (yes, I have registered my copy). But I can see how some people loathe spending $69 for something so fundamental--filling in all the holes in MS-DOS can be an expensive proposition: $69 for 4DOS, $99 for Norton Utilities, $xx for FastBack, $55 for QEdit, $46 for PKLite, $xx for Viruscan, etc. You can get by without any of these; the standard DOS utilities plus some freeware will work nicely. For more money you can get more functionality. For some people it isn't worth it, just as everyone does not need a 50 MHz 486. -- James Hague exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!west.West.Sun.COM!cronkite.Central.Sun.COM!texsun!exucom.exu.ericsson.se!news From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: 4-DOS vs COMMAND.COM Message-ID: <1992Sep1.155526.10829@exu.ericsson.se> Date: 1 Sep 92 15:55:26 GMT References: <BtwIpE.5HD@rice.edu> Sender: news@exu.ericsson.se Reply-To: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Richardson, TX Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: s09a05.exu.ericsson.se