Bob Breed wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 BB> I ran Dos for years using a shell program named "QDOS."

 RJT> I used that too,  but it falls over when you have more than
 RJT> 700-some-odd files in a directory.  It simply won't display them all.
 RJT> Switched to InspectA, which I still use a lot,  but that has a problem
 RJT> (in the OS/2 version at least) when there's more than 2G of free space.

 BB> 700 files!  :)  Never a problem here back in my DOS days.  :)

Much of that was archived messages.  :-)

 BB> However  today I do have a few folders with close to that inside 
 BB> them.  But by and large I keep em pared down, drop stuff off onto 
 BB> CDR.

I have yet to get going on that process,  though I'm a bit closer to it now
than I was,  this past week.

 BB> That made it managable, but GUI's make it easy. :)

 RJT> It makes some aspects of things manageable,  but GUIs tend to get in
 RJT> the way more...

 BB> Depends on what you get used to.   I like GUI's. :)

Different tools for different jobs.  I find GUIs appropriate for some
things, but not all that much.

 BB> I think the Lx world finally came to the table with them as well. 
 BB> But the nice thing about Lx is you can do as you wish; want to use
 BB> command lines - do it!  Want to use a GUI, then load KDE or Gnome
 BB> - and probably some others out there as well?

Sure.  There are a lot of window managers out there,  some of which are
considerably less resource-intensive than either KDE or Gnome.

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