On 2002-10-07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Charles Angelich> said: >Often the only 'motivation' for writing free software is the >existence of free source code to modify rather than start with a >blank page. There were few alternate 'DOS' until source for DRDOS >and FreeDOS was made available - now there is an endless stream of >dos-wannabe's and embedded DOS etc.
If the trend of free, available DOS code continues, that could possibly awaken more interest in DOS development, and I'd welcome that. In any case, what you've said may indicate why there are so many foreign clones of Norton Commander. Yet I still feel the NC model commends itself to more creativity than many other sorts of DOS shells. >>Tell me about what DOS shells (if any) >>that *you* have used over the years or would recommend to others. >I've always used Gazelle Systems QDII and QDIII. They went out of >business, then returned with a new owner but I've not checked on >the new company for a year or more now. >>And tell me what you think of those I've mentioned, if that >>interests you, and if you're familiar with them. >Desk2 is quite useable if you want mouseable. The newer SEAL is >very good looking but a resource hog. Volkov Commander is >mentioned often and is quite small/fast and useful. Do you have URLs for QDII/QDIII and Desk2, and I'll check them out. Jerry...on his 486DX2/50 MHz/8MB RAM/DOS Navigator & Genesis Commander ***** with IBM PC DOS 7 at the Computer Lab of Classic Systems, Ltd. -*- Problems can be costly; answers priceless; excuses cheap. Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Registered 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
