> Trying to install win$ to upgrade your DOS though is unwise as the DOS
> included is far less powerful than the older DOS and you can always just
> yank utilities off the floppy disk that it makes ("rescue disk") and get
> more utils off the net. the DOS with w98 was never made with the intention
> that you'd use it regularily and it is really only an underpinning for a
> few simple tasks and rescue work.
This puzzles me. I have win98 installed on my machine because there are some
windows apps that I can't avoid using (not that I hate windows any the less
for that, mind). Consequently, I boot to DOS 7 and I have never had any
reason to regret the 'upgrade' from DOS 6.22. AFAICT the former is in no way
'less powerful' than the latter, and they both run 4DOS just fine. It seems
to me that the DOS 7 external commands are virtualy identical to their
predecessors. All my hundreds of utilitys work with both DOSes. FAT 32 works just
fine with all my DOS apps and LFN's haven't been a problem. The only thing
that I miss from the old DOS 6.22 days is NCACHE2, which was *soooo* much
better than the stinking SMARTDRV that I have to use now.
> So why not use Arachne-DOS for e-mail and Win98 for serious web access?
> I practice this -UNPROTECTED- for 3 years now and never had any problem.
> My co-editor at the magazine does not use DOS for e-mail and uses a fire
> wall... 2 computers and only one at the telephone lines. He is
> struggeling every day to keep the installation clean... always looking
> for the latest anti-virus software and updates. This is becomming an
> obsession logging in 3 times a day at those anti-virus pages.
> To add: I do not use web based e-mail and have a back-up computer ready..
> just in case. Never had to use that second computer, though.
> No fear, no fuzz... and you know my income depends on that magazine.
> Thanks Michael for develloping Arachne!
> CU, Bastiaan
Right on Bastiaan! I do all my email thru Arachne as well as as much web
work as I possibly can, and I have yet to catch a virus over the web.
PLEASE don't abandon us Michael. Make us all pay if you must, but don't
let Arachne die.
Ray
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