Sam Ewalt wrote:
> Quite an admission from the Microsoft XP team leader!

Or Botton responded:

> This looks very good! MS-DOS might be "dead" in Microsoft's eyes,
  but with this kind of support, etleast the future Windows XP
  revisions might have a useable command line or etleast some sort of a
  "emergency text-only command mode".

> Its not DOS, but its alot better then a "Cant bring up the GUI.
  System is doomed." situation.

OS/2 had a nice command mode, incorporating the greater power of OS/2 as
compared to DOS.  I believe Windows NT and 2000 had a command mode.  Does
anybody know more about the command mode of the newer Windowses including XP?

I see a few of my messages have come back for a second round on the Arachne
list, though I only sent them once.

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