[PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Mon Jun 7 21:50:45 UTC 2010


Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Joe Shisei Niski wrote:
> 
>> yes, but the MS-DOS command languagewas sooo limited compared to its IXen
>> *contemporaries - especially for scripting - that it was truly
>> pitiful from the beginning. The current standard MS-Win command shell
>> isn't much of an improvement.
> 
> Joe,
> 
>    I no longer recall what company sold a suite of UNIX work-alikes for DOS,
> but I bought the set and used it extensively. Made it difficult to work in
> plain DOS. :-)

Probably MKS Toolkit.  Almost made DOS tolerable.  Almost.

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Galen Seitz
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