[PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Jun 7 21:43:55 UTC 2010


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. :-)

Rich



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