Subj : Does anyone still use DOS for anything
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Thu Sep 10 2020 13:23:30

Hello, August Abolins.
On 9/10/20 8:41 PM you wrote:

 AA> On 10/09/2020 8:01 a.m., Charles Pierson : All wrote:
 ??>> Does anyone still use DOS  for anything other than 
 ??>> hobby/nostalgia?
 AA> Don't we all (at least Windows users) still use a component of DOS 
 AA> called the command-line?  I run batch programs everyday to send 
 AA> backups via ftp/telnet. I only fetch ewwtoob videos using 
 AA> youtube-dl, and I run a batch prog to "touch" those files with the 
 AA> current date.  I'll hop into CLI to check a few things every now 
 AA> and then.

I don't actually use my Windows machine very much any more. I experiment a lot with tweaks and programs, to the point I've fried my computer's systems more than once.  My wife tends to frown at that.

It's a pity, because I found a lot of things that I could get older machines to do and run, which conventions said couldn't.

I need to get back into that.   
 
 AA> The newer WinXX'es might give us a GUI, but isn't it just DOS 
 AA> under the mantel?
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