Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:17:50 03/24/01
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On March 25, 2001 at 00:51:04, Pete Galati wrote:
>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
Until WinME it was very easy to boot in Dos. So I guess the product is designed
to restore this useful feature to Windows ME?
Christophe
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