Subj : Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? To : Steve From : Outsider Date : Sun Feb 03 2002 05:11 pm From: Outsider@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Outsider) Subject: Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? From: Outsider E. S. (Steve) Fabian wrote: > > nonvalid_email@yahoo.com wrote: > > > > Just because you can replace part of the OS does not mean the replaced > > part is not a part of the OS. This is illogical. Replace command.com > > with 4DOS and it is no longer MSDOS, but 4DOS. No software producer > > will support an altered version of thir product. All guarantees, if > > any, will be null and void. > > > > It seems many 4DOS users see it otherwise. I suggest you an experiment > > as in the example above and decide for yourself. There is no room for > > discussion in this group on this particular topic. Just form your own > > opinion. > > This cowardly author, who uses varying psedonyms, including those of > famous personalities, but refuses to provide his or her own name, So you think there is only one person in the world called Bruce Springsteen?? > refuses to accept what a freshmen of Computer Science and of Software > Egnioneering are taught, and is also published by Microsoft Press, the > "Microsoft MS-DOS PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE The Official Technical > Reference to MS-DOS", quoted below (thanks to scannner and OCR): ....snipped > I hope that this direct quotation from Microsoft's own documentation > will put to bed the issue of what is and what is not part of the MS-DOS > operating system. Note also that eraly IBM PCs could be started without > any operating system, running ROM-based BASIC, and were able to access > all peripherals, including getting a disk directory. No. It proves you are either not an adult or not a very mature person. -- |Fidonet: Outsider 1:342/3 | | Origin: The Cereal Port BBS (603)899-3335 199.125.78.133 (1:132/152) --- # Origin: (1:132/152.4) * Origin: Baddog BBS (1:218/903) .