DOS is your friend
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I have to say how pleasantly surprised I was to see how powerful DOS is to work with.. I've recently started using DOS to do some maintenance on machines that the software we run works on and I've been very presently surprised how powerful it is and the amount I can do with out needed windows GUI.
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I have to say how pleasantly surprised I was to see how powerful DOS is to work with.. I've recently started using DOS to do some maintenance on machines that the software we run works on and I've been very presently surprised how powerful it is and the amount I can do with out needed windows GUI.
When you say DOS what do you mean? Do you mean the actual Disk Operating System from Microsoft? Or do you just mean using the command prompt from Windows? That is to very different things.
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
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When you say DOS what do you mean? Do you mean the actual Disk Operating System from Microsoft? Or do you just mean using the command prompt from Windows? That is to very different things.
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandRohde wrote:
When you say DOS what do you mean?
I mean the command prompt you get with XP and the application and commands that can run using it from Telnet. I think it is over looked by more recent people in computer who only had windows and never had to deal with a command prompt
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I have to say how pleasantly surprised I was to see how powerful DOS is to work with.. I've recently started using DOS to do some maintenance on machines that the software we run works on and I've been very presently surprised how powerful it is and the amount I can do with out needed windows GUI.
It may be powerful, but in the same way as ASM is a powerful language. Too clumsy and nerve-wrecking to use if there's a higher level alternative available.
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Rohde wrote:
When you say DOS what do you mean?
I mean the command prompt you get with XP and the application and commands that can run using it from Telnet. I think it is over looked by more recent people in computer who only had windows and never had to deal with a command prompt
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hopingToCode wrote:
over looked by more recent people in computer who only had windows and never had to deal with a command prompt
Except of course for those who use Linux.
Abu Mami wrote:
Except of course for those who use Linux.
I haven't used Linux in a while but the impression I get from all the new reviews I get is that command line is less needed. Plus we use XP and most users don't have experience of the command line. But you do have a good point and Linux command prompt is more powerful then XP
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I have to say how pleasantly surprised I was to see how powerful DOS is to work with.. I've recently started using DOS to do some maintenance on machines that the software we run works on and I've been very presently surprised how powerful it is and the amount I can do with out needed windows GUI.
On vista it's great too. Why use a search tool that will make you want to throw something at your computer or throw your computer out of the window. dir /s WhereDidInstallShieldPutThis.dll Fantastic, someone should have thought of such a convenient search technique years ago. It doesn't care about technical piffle like Indexed Locations, it doesn't need the help of a cute puppy. It just finds the file you asked for with the minimum of fuss and tells you where it is - That's progress! Russell
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On vista it's great too. Why use a search tool that will make you want to throw something at your computer or throw your computer out of the window. dir /s WhereDidInstallShieldPutThis.dll Fantastic, someone should have thought of such a convenient search technique years ago. It doesn't care about technical piffle like Indexed Locations, it doesn't need the help of a cute puppy. It just finds the file you asked for with the minimum of fuss and tells you where it is - That's progress! Russell
The face pummeling amount of sarcasm injected into that post made me laugh so hard :laugh:
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I have to say how pleasantly surprised I was to see how powerful DOS is to work with.. I've recently started using DOS to do some maintenance on machines that the software we run works on and I've been very presently surprised how powerful it is and the amount I can do with out needed windows GUI.
That's why I spend most of my day in a DOS box. A GUI is good for a few things, like selecting a bunch of files to copy or delete (when a wildcard won't suffice), but for most things I use the command line. Colleagues also tend not to bother me as much when they see a screen-full of grey-on-black mono-spaced text scrolling up my monitor. They tend to back away when I say I'm looking at the raw matrix. :cool:
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On vista it's great too. Why use a search tool that will make you want to throw something at your computer or throw your computer out of the window. dir /s WhereDidInstallShieldPutThis.dll Fantastic, someone should have thought of such a convenient search technique years ago. It doesn't care about technical piffle like Indexed Locations, it doesn't need the help of a cute puppy. It just finds the file you asked for with the minimum of fuss and tells you where it is - That's progress! Russell
Just not as powerful as OpenVMS' version; Microsoft really should bring DIR up to '80s standards.