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Subject: Re: why?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 21:51:04 03/24/01

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On March 24, 2001 at 23:02:05, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On March 24, 2001 at 18:27:17, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On March 24, 2001 at 18:06:38, liam hearns wrote:
>>
>>>write a program like rebel in dos ???????????great program but why all theses
>>>years in dos?
>>
>>I like Dos, don't know about anyone else, but I like it.
>>
>>Pete
>
>
>I like it too, and I could not work without it (I mean it would take me some
>time to adapt all my tools).
>
>As a matter of facts, Chess Tiger and Gambit Tiger are STILL developped under
>DOS at this time. My everyday work is done under DOS with the free GCC compiler
>(version 2.7.2 of the DJGPP adaptation of GCC, it's a rather old version) and
>the excellent RHIDE interface (editor/compiler/debugger).
>
>When I have an interesting version, I compile it to a Windows DLL with the MS VC
>6 compiler.
>
>But the REAL Chess Tiger is a DOS program.
>
>
>
>    Christophe

Yep, I wish people would stop being afraid to use Dos.  Everything's simple,
everything makes complete sense, and all the commands do exactly what you tell
them to do.

You know, just simple stuff, like you want to move a file, I don't know, how
could you not know to use the "move" command??

But I had to tell my sister in an email (she's a Mac user), how to copy files on
a networked PC where she goes to school, not too difficult actually to do, but
describing it isn't much fun, but it would have been twice as easy to describe
how to do it in Dos.

And what a twisted mess Windows turns the computers into, it takes me months to
make the things run smoothly and stop crashing on me. But hey, I was looking at
a website about System Commander, and if I install that, it claims that one of
the things it automatically does is give you the ability to boot into Dos
without having to cheat your way in with a system floppy.  But I've been
procrastinating and haven't bought it yet.

Pete



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