oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) (06/13/91)
So, MS-DOS 5.0 was released yesterday... Like a good techno-geek I went down to the local egg-head store and plunked down my $40 for the upgrade. I installed it this morning. It comes with fairly complete documentation and mine came on 3 720k diskettes. It took about 0.5 hrs to install. The system was a clone AT with misc hardware, but no TSR's and no non-standard hardware. I run windows, BC++, and TPW on it only. The install program seemed to go well. It was a bit neater about the installation then other programs like it that I've seen. The PC-DOS 4.0 setup program failed miserably for me. It gave me good choices except for the dos directory. Mine was called \DOS400 and I wanted it to be \DOS500 when I got done. I didn't realize it would install the new version in the old directory (it wasn't clear from the prompts screens) so I had to restart after I screwed up and tried to move the files over to \DOS500. It took about an hr to recover from that screw up (that's what I get for doing that at 0500). Windows, bc++, and tpw worked without a hitch. When I got done I had 610k free (I think) rather than about 570k with PC-DOS 4.0. NDD 4.51 with MS-DOS 3.3 took 6+ minutes to read the whole disk. With PC-DOS 4.0 it took about 7:45 minutes, and now with MS-DOS 5.0 we're back down to 6:15 to read the whole disk. I haven't explored it yet but these are the things I noticed. mem gives you some more info. dir has quite a few sorting options as well as showing you the size of the files in the directory (5 iterations to get this in? you're kidding!) It's nice. The on-line help is nice for me. It helps in remembering the parameters. The shell is ok. If you like those sorts of things it might work well for you. The new basic seems to be fairly quick (12mhz 286). The new editor is nice compared to edlin. In both the editor as well as the new basic (they're the same apparently) if you don't like microsoft's way of doing things (tabs, alt keys, and such) too bad. I'll still keep qedit around. The size of the \DOS500 directory is about 2meg. Obviously some if it could be removed. Summary: I'm happy to have paid $40 for this. Much more and I wouldn't have gone to the trouble. bruce -- Bruce O'Neel oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC/STX/Code 664
Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (06/13/91)
In article <ONEEL.91Jun12142313@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov>, oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) wrote: }you. The new basic seems to be fairly quick (12mhz 286). The new }editor is nice compared to edlin. In both the editor as well as the }new basic (they're the same apparently) if you don't like microsoft's Yep. EDIT.COM is a 413-byte program which merely invokes QBASIC with a switch to turn off the non-editor functions. IMHO, if I'm going to load a quarter-meg editor, it had better have unlimited file sizes, a full extension language, etc.... I second the opinion of sticking with Qedit for the little stuff (and I'll keep using Epsilon for the big jobs). -- {backbone}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf ARPA: RALF@CS.CMU.EDU FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/53 BITnet: RALF%CS.CMU.EDU@CARNEGIE AT&Tnet: (412)268-3053 (school) FAX: ask DISCLAIMER? Did | It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's I claim something?| what we know that ain't so. --Will Rogers