jarnot@canisius.UUCP (Kevin Jarnot) (06/08/89)
Has anyone out there used 4DOS, a replacement for COMMAND.COM? I
installed it today, and it seems to MANY features that MS-DOS desperately
needs (ie. aliases, history, on-line manual, etc). I'm wondering if anyone
has had any compatability problems with it, as the $50 shareware cost is
a bit steep for my budget, and I don't want to blow the money away.
Kevin
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-Friedrich Nietzsche | GOD, what great ideas they are!file@gandalf.nosc.mil (Darren M. File) (06/09/89)
I tried 4DOS for a week, but I took it off my system due to a bug. At first all worked well, but at some point I was no longer able to copy files from one disk to another (harddrive --> floppy, floppy --> harddrive). It wouldn`t have been so bad except that the files were destroyed in the process. I first believed it was only due to using the 286 version, but the same thing happened on my machine at home using the 8088 version. If 4DOS has this bug, it could also have others. You may want to contact the author before purchasing the $50 version.
sld@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Steven Louis Davis) (06/09/89)
In article <1232@nosc.NOSC.MIL> file@gandalf.nosc.mil.UUCP (Darren M. File) writes: > > I tried 4DOS for a week, but I took it off my system due to a bug. > [file destruction while copying] > If 4DOS has this bug, it could also have others. I have been using 4DOS for about 3 weeks now and like it. It provides many features I have become accustomed to using tsr programs like a history mechanism (ced, dosedit, pced), file completion (filec), a rich command language, and on-line help. I have had no problems such as the file destruction while copying (and if I do, i'll get rid of 4dos immediately) and my only complaint is that the file completion is *not* unix style like filec. Instead of completing a name until the first ambiguity is reached and then prompting the user for more characters, 4dos retrievs the first possible match (the whole file name) and then if you don't like it, you can ask for the next match (even this doesn't always seem to work for me). Also, 4dos cannot complete file names if there is a ".." in the path. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steven L. Davis Internet: sld@beach.cis.ufl.edu UUCP: ...gatech!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!sld