-=>> Quoting Thom Lacosta to Nancy Backus on 10-17-04  04:12 <=-

 TL>> I was a DOS only system for many, many years...and it finally got to
 TL>> be too much hassle working with the old gear....so I made the
 TL>> switch...but most of what I do is still dos stuff under windows XP.

 About what I do.

 NB> I imagine that I will be essentially DOS only for quite a
 NB> while yet... as long as my resident wizard can keep writing
 NB> fixes for things so that I can still work in DOS.  We do

 Have your resident wizard put his fixes on a website, so those
 of us who still have some dos machines around can get them.

 NB> have Win95 on this machine, but it boots directly into DOS,
 NB> and if for the occasional thing windows is needed for
 NB> something graphical, we can start it up just for that and
 NB> then go back to DOS when done.  Even then, it's usually
 NB> keys rather than point-and- click, whenever possible.  :)

 I hung onto my dos machine for a long time, but when I upgraded
 it was straight to Win XP, in a Dell 1.6 gig. Only did it for
 video work.

 My personal programming is still in dos, bat files and
 quickbasic. Where I work we still have my old quick basic
 storeroom program running, on our Win 2K equipped Dells.

 Though I have been thinking of Linux for a long time. I just
 don't want to bother learning anything new.

 TL>> Don't be so long in posting....there have to be other DOS folks
 TL>> aroun(g).

 NB> I'd hope there were... :)  I've run into a few still... :)
 NB> But I rarely have much to put onto the echo, as I'm just
 NB> using the magic spells on the box as I was taught by my
 NB> wizard...  ;)  The announcement of this* fix, however,
 NB> seemed important enough... :)


 NB> ... DOS = venerable;  Win95 = vulnerable

 I like it.

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