Subj : Re: Ms-Dos 4.0 Open-Sourced
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun May 05 2024 08:23:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

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

You could do it all, it was just a lot more complicated in DOS batch.
You could probably do some tasks in BASH with a fraction of the lines of
commands.


 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.

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

To my previous point - REXX scripts that did the same as an equivalent
DOS Batch file were significantly shorter.




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