> So really, if you're still finding you can do what you need within the DOS
> environment, there's no compulsion to change. On lower end hardware --
> pre-386 or low memory systems especially, DOS will be pretty hard to beat.
> It's really a question of whether you've hit the wall or not. Just be
> comforted in knowing that there's a "bigger DOS" out there that can take
> advantage of all of today's hardware, while still giving much of the same
> "look and feel" (and control) that you find appealing about DOS.
Truth to tell what mostly makes me a ``die hard'' are the dozens and dozens of
wonderful applications I would have to give up. You gave an example of
dos ports of unix stuff. A sample of a program hard to abandon for me, is
an expanded version of the unix help ``man'' command for dos. The
expansion includes a multi-leveled menu for browsing for the info. you
want, additional keyword and data-base like searches for finding the
stuff you want, the ability to store manuals, man pages -- whatever
in any compressed format of your choice -- and most of all -- the ability
to have your man command run ANY program whateover that displayed the
information page -- norton menu, arachne for html, some standalone viewer,
etc. etc.
I could write my own source code for this in Linux, but practically speaking
this program is a LOT better than Unix, man, and I simply will not have it
available in Linux.
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