Subj : Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? To : Outsider From : E.S.Fabian Date : Sun Feb 03 2002 08:59 pm From: E.S.Fabian@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (E.S.Fabian) Subject: Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? From: "E.S.Fabian" "Outsider" wrote in message news:3C5D6116.8FE5E03C@yahoo.com... > 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. How about a straw vote: who thinks Microsoft's own documentation as quoted in my earlier correspondence correctly excludes command processors from being part of the Operating System proper, and who thinks that Outsider's contrary opinion is correct, i.e., if it is included in the distribution, such as GORILLA.BAS, NIBBLES.BAS, it is part of the OS? -- E. S. "Steve" Fabian ESFabian@BellAtlantic.net POB 1540, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Telephone: 856-354-1752 EMPIRE Consultants, Inc. Director, Software Development ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- |Fidonet: E.S.Fabian 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) .