Subj : Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? To : Rolf Jentsch From : R.A.G. Seely Date : Tue Feb 05 2002 03:25 pm From: R.A.G..Seely@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (R.A.G. Seely) Subject: Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? From: "R.A.G. Seely" email@rolfjentsch.de (Rolf Jentsch) wrote in news:8ICEPbTvH3B@rolfjentsch.de: > not personally but: Of course - in fact you are just saying what I was trying to say. I also backed this up with evidence from MS's own original documentation. > I think most of you mix the terms "operating system" and "command line > interface". To be fair, I think most posts in this matter have not mixed these up - only a few who cannot separate the functions of command.com and ms-dos have had that problem. But a common thread in the discussion is precisely the following: > The OS formed by the two sys files makes the system operable. If you > want to interact with it you may need command.com as an command line > interface. This could be done with the rom based basic of early IBM > PC's as well (at least if they had disc basic). No need for > command.com. My first post in this debate explicitly mentioned "cassette basic", which was the CLI one got with the original "MS-DOS" (then PC-DOS) unless one hooked up an external floppy drive to one's PC. > By now perspectives may have changed, because there is hardly any pc > today. AAMOF we are all running at least AT's (ok few of you may still > have those musem artefacts (I still have my pet 2001)). But the fact > remains that the system is perfectly operatable if there is not a > thing that functions like command.com is present. I have to admit > that you have to tell this fact to the OS in order to keep it > running. And this too was part of that original post, and I have seen others make this point. Moreover, repeatedly we have been saying that this point is explicitly made in the MS documentation itself - it is not MS that makes the claim that command.com is part of the OS, but some of its fans ... I think there cannot be more to say in this thread - if evidence is a factor in making one's opinion, the matter is settled, and if it isn't then the discussion is pointless. -= rags =- -- To reply by email, use "@" not "__A@T__" Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. -- |Fidonet: R.A.G. Seely 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) .