TL> Nancy Backus wrote in a message to Thom Lacosta:

-=>> 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.

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

 TL> Everyone needs a wizard(g)

 NB>>   We do have Win95 on this
 NB>> machine, but it boots directly into DOS

 TL> Makes sense....

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

 TL> If everyone waits to see a post...well, no one sees
 TL> anything.

 TL> I still run a lot of DOS stuff on the WindowsXP box here.

 I do industrial automation. All our machine interface software
 is the old Dos stuff. I have Ztree on my computer, but I also
 have Xtree Gold, which does a better job of viewing some files.
 Esp .wk1. And converts them to plain text real good...

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