Re: [fd-dev] Dosemu

[Day Brown]

I have used Arachne, but found it increasingly unable to render pages, and then when I moved and got a new ISP, unable to logon. Nor was I able to get another PPP driver to work with it that reportedly could handle mschap, or whatever the local windoz server was dishing out.

Not even all the Linux PPP drivers could do it; I've only been able to with REDHAT 9 & SUSE 7.4. The former had Mozilla on the cd, and I liked it a lot better than Ntscpe. I was also able to download moz and have it install on Suse. But the older copies of BSD, Debian, Corel, Slack, didnt work for me.

I've tried TDE and TED, but found Dexter offered functionality they lacked. Dexter seems to be abandonware, the docs only listing a few defunct BBS hosts for support. Altho shareware, it is not crippleware, nor begware. Printer support only ascii or hp laserjet, but since I am only interested in crt output, no problem for me. But the macro system which programmers like is the best I ever saw. It has both global and local config, so you can save the margin, macros, color settings and whatnot with a given document. for instance, if it is a black bkgnd and purple forgnd I know it is an ebook I'm working on, but if the fgnd is green, then its the batch program used to display etext.

Because Linux is so automated, few users need to monkey around with where files are; because dos is not, users have more power to decide what should go where, and when that policy is changed, easier to rearrange the file tree. This also makes sense because Linux is so often for networked platforms where you dont want users messing with it. But for the single user desktop, the power of dos to arrange things makes for some convenience. With dos, when I want the doc for an app, I know to change to the directory and look for the .doc, .txt or README, and that is a lot faster than Linux searching the (much larger) entire file tree for the documentation.

Unlike other operating systems, while I have received a dos virus on a floppy, I've yet to ever, in 20 years at the dos keybaord, to loose any of my own data; at worst I had to reinstall a clean boot with the simple 'SYS C:' command. I have used a dos drive to backup data from both Linux and windoz, with neither of these being aware of the other, or being at risk from the other.

People who never turn off the computer would not be annoyed at FIND. I AM NOT one of them; and in principle, I ponder the ultimate result of a computer that you no longer can turn off. Orwellian.

as for ctrl-s, and control q, I see the 'pause' button on this, and every other keyboard I have ever used or ever saw on a pc. I see that dos knows how to respond to it. ctrl-s & q are not exactly intuitive.
WAITASEC goes much further, hit 'scroll lock & up arrow', and it not only stops the scroll, but it *backs up* to see text that has ripped by.

If Linux wants to be good for every user with every pc in every country with every kybd, that's ok with me, but I think that there's enuf USA single user desktops to warrent an os that comes on from cold boot to the file manager without any kybd/ms input. I am somewhat puzzled that the distros have not figured this out and offered an edition with that default, which... is what Freedos does.

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