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.

Everyone needs a wizard(g)

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

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... :)

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

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

cya,
thom
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