dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (09/17/88)
As a relatively new user on MS Windows 386, I find that its not too bad, but far from perfect. In particular I find the default MSDOS executive window to be very lame and would like to find a decent replacement. I have tried a thing called CMDPOST from Wilson Windoware, a shareware package that sits atop? or inside? the default MSDOS window and greatly improves its useability. Mainly, it allows the user to define his own menus that reside at the same level as the File View Special pulldown options. It also does a better job of cleaning up a messy screen. The main deficiency I currently find with CMDPOST is that you cannot design a menu entry that can make use of the filename select in the directory display. Thus, although you can be saved from typing program names, you cannot be saved from typing in filenames. What is needed is (at least) two degrees of freedom accessible from the mouse: what program to run, and what file (or files) to use as arguments. For example, the file PROG.C, I might want to edit it, compile it, page through it, archive it, etc. Currently, Windows only allows you to bind one operation to a filename based on its extension. (That itself is very stupid, what about the file README, can't do anything with that... Gotta type ALT F R more README, just to examine a text file (or use a decent browser)) Anyways, are there better programs that are out there that can live atop MS WINDOWS 386 ? I definitely like the feature of allowing any DOS program (within reason) to be put in a window... Please email responses. Thanks. Cheers, Dan Ts'o 212-570-7671 Dept. Neurobiology dan@rna.rockefeller.edu Rockefeller Univ. ...cmcl2!rna!dan 1230 York Ave. rna!dan@nyu.arpa NY, NY 10021 tso@rockefeller.arpa tso@rockvax.bitnet atop MS WINDOWS 386