Hello bob!

28 Oct 09 20:33, bob klahn wrote to MIKE TRIPP:

 bk>  Do you remember Xtree? I use a 32 bit version called Ztree.
 bk>  Ztree.com to find it.

 bk>  Ztree has a batch builder function that can automate writing the
 bk>  batch file to do the conversion.

 bk>  If you like Dos you will like Ztree, and Xtree.

I used Q-DOS as my shell "training wheels" to transition from the
CP/M commandline to the DOS commandline (COPY had so many more switches
than PIP...and then there was the option to XCOPY and more/different
switches also).  Like your favorite text editor, the hotkey
strokes eventually flow like stream of consciousness and newcomers have to
be mighty impressive to preempt "old faithful".  So I remember
tinkering with Xtree and being impressed, but not enough to discard my
Q-DOS mastery to switch over...and I was pretty self-sufficient at the
commandline by that time also.

The major advantage, that I recall being interested in myself, was being
able to navigate inside the various archiver formats.  Q-DOS didn't do
that, as it predated most of the archivers.  Eventually SHEZ made
it down the filebone and filled that niche nicely for maintaining archives
in the file areas specifically, but even to this day I still fire up Q-DOS
from time to time when I need to study/prune/graft directory trees on the
Netware 3.11 server from DOS, OS2, or XP without waiting for several
minutes for GUIs to build a map.

.\\ike

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