> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 00:58:48 +00 > From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re:(Valves) Practical Dos Deficiencies?
>>>> I must admit the hardest part for me of abandoning Dos, is losing >>>> a whole lot of programs I love that will never be ported to Linux, and >>>> which I will never try to emulate by writing my own source code for. There are many ways to run Dos programs, the one I use is OS/2 Warp. All dos apps are run separately, with different autoexec.bat files, variables can be individually tuned. Using the HPFS file system results in a noticeable improvement in Arachne over FAT. Further with OS/2 one can run Win 3.1, unix using Xfree86 or emx, win95 using Odin, there even was a Mac emulator. Multitasking is it's forte, running Arachne online while minimized. I find for many Dos programs that a graphical interface is worse rather than better. That from upgrading from dos to windows versions. Even Linux I am sure has a dos box to run apps in. Reb -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
