Subj : Re: Ms-Dos 4.0 Open-Sourced
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat May 04 2024 15:36:36

  Re: Re: Ms-Dos 4.0 Open-Sourced
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat May 04 2024 09:33 am

 PF> I still have an MS-DOS 5 book somewhere...   :)

 PF> Those books were great for learning batch file programming, which took DOS
 PF> to a different level. I had a book called "Supercharging MS-DOS" that
 PF> taught me a lot about batch files - that was right when I was running a
 PF> DOS BBS and mailer. Batch files were king.

:)  I'd sometimes heard that MS-DOS batch language was more limited compared to the command shells of UNIX.  I've seen some fairly complicated batch files for Windows though..

 PF> About that time, I got a job at a shop that had a Point-of-Sale system
 PF> with 100 DOS nodes and 50 or so OS/2 nodes. I was amazed at what you could
 PF> do with REXX and OS/2.

I never did use REXX..  I heard it was good though.

Nightfox
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