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To   : Khelair
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Jul 15 2015 12:41 pm

 >  Ni> I'm not sure I'd consider 4DOS a limitation, since (I believe) it's
 >  Ni> ful
 >  Ni> Ni> compatible with command.com.  It's cool to hear that 4DOS is now  >
 >  Ni> Ni> Ni> freeware.  Ni> I used to use 4DOS in the early 90s, when DOS
 >  Ni> Ni> was my  >  Ni> primary OS, and I  Ni> thought it provided some
 >  Ni> Ni> useful enhancements  ove
 >  Ni> the command.com included  Ni> with MS-DOS.

 >   I loved 4dos.  Such awesome enhancements for command.com's pointlessly  >
 > lobotomized batch features.

I had always heard that DOS was meant to be simplified (as compared to UNIX &
BSD, etc.) - I imagine command.com was probably made to be more simple than
the Bash shell.

Nightfox

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