will hill wrote: >What can you DO with a DOS prompt? I'm so spoiled by GNU tools that the >average windoze box is just impossible for me. There's no man pages, paths >are all broken, there's no find or archive utilities, you are lucky if you >have command memory, but forget tab complete and filenames with spaces in >them screw everything you might have gotten to work. Their CLI seems as >barren, primative barren and difficult as their single desktop GUI or Mars. >I understand there once was life there and still have a copy of DOS 3.2 in >the closet with collection of other dead binaries. Has something emerged >from the dust? > > > Dayum, so much drama Will.....:) I really just wanted to get to command line to syslinux my USB pen drive, and then when I did get there Window$ wouldn't do it anyway so I fired up my trusty ole laptop with Xandros on it and did it from there..
Ed
