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In article <1992Aug19.132543.7617@swlvx2.msd.ray.com> rgc@swlrau.msd.ray.com (RICK CARLE) writes:
>
>>The funny side of it is that it is almost predestined that when an
>>MsDos problem is posed some dedicated soul suggests using 4DOS. 
>
>On the other hand, the solution to perhaps half the msdos problems seems
>to be replacement of command.com by 4dos.  The solution to half the
>remaining half is replacement of msdos by drdos.  After that you need
>something like os2v2.  So it's not hard to replace msdos, but solving
>its problems takes 3 programs.

That's the problem - none of those programs are free. 4DOS costs about the 
same as a DOS 5 upgrade, so going to DOS 5 + 4DOS costs double just going to 
DOS 5, and using free utilities.  Then there are people like me, who 
collected most of the functionality of 4DOS in various little pieces over 
the years before it came out.  It would be silly to advocate that 
anyone else do it that way now, because 4DOS is much cheaper than 
the total of the half dozen programs I use instead, and working out all 
the conflicts would be a big waste of time.  

But it's also silly to suggest that I should switch to 4DOS, spending $80 
(or whatever) for no gain.  In fact it would be a loss for me:  Anarkey, for 
instance, does better command completion than 4DOS does.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca