Howard Schwartz wrote: > Truth to tell what mostly makes me a ``die hard'' are the dozens and > dozens of wonderful applications I would have to give up. There many dos tools which I know well with functionality I have yet to see in Linux.
As limited as Arachne is, I know how to tag all the spam without waiting for it to open, and delete it all at once. I dunno how to do that in Linux. DC & DW have several commands for tagging and untagging groups of files that I dont see on MC. If you are going to be reading and writing text like this, it makes sense to be working in text mode. When I compose with a dos text editor, I expect a single line toolbar at the top and the other 49 lines for the text I am working with. I also expect to be able to shift back and forth between 25 and 50 lines with a hotkey. In dos, since one is always 'root' this is convenient. All of this, and much more, could be done in Linux, but the fact is that the work being done in Linux is pretty much limited to GUI tools, with more effort going into eyecandy than actual functionality. All of this was done in dos because it was needed before one could waste time in GUI, picking wallpaper or whatever. If you wanted to improve a dos program, you couldnt do much to improve the look, you hadda go for functionality. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
