Very Computer

The last time I used DOS, the command to move files without copying
contents was still a shareware utility.

Quote:>I use Linux how, and am quite happy with it, but I must admit that
>my first encounter with both DOS and unix commands wondered me. Neither
>of them is very intuitive when you come from the c64 where things are
>called

>    open 1,8,15,"s0:filename,p":close 1

>when you want to erase a file (and that's without error-messages :-)

Heh, what about listing a disk directory? You had to load it as a BASIC
program and then LIST it. The line numbers represented file sizes.
The command was, of course:

        load "$",8,1

The Apple II advocates would always boast about how much more user friendly
it was to type "CATALOG"

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[talk about DOS and unix command userfriendlyness or lack of the same]

Quote:>And what's the reason for "rmdir" instead of "deldir" ?
>Why can't I remove directories recursively ?
>What does xcopy ? Copy X11 ? :-)

ROFL!

This reminds me of once I tried to do the .bat stunt to get unix-
like commands in DOS, and I tried to put the DOS command "deltree"
in a batfile to use for recursive directory removal.
I shouldn't have done that, because when I used it, my CMOS-RAM was
erased. I tried it several times, and we must say that it consistently
deleted the directory--in fact, the entire harddisk went a few times :-)

I use Linux how, and am quite happy with it, but I must admit that
my first encounter with both DOS and unix commands wondered me. Neither
of them is very intuitive when you come from the c64 where things are
called

        open 1,8,15,"s0:filename,p":close 1

when you want to erase a file (and that's without error-messages :-)

Greets,

Asger Alstrup (using a friend's account)
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