David Bowerman wrote in a message to Bat Lang:

 BL> I've never dabbled with 4DOS but I am aware that there is an analog
 BL> for OS/2 called (oddly enough) 4OS2. {^; There are even some of the
 BL> folks in this echo that use 4OS2.  Right, FOLKS???
 BL> Good Modeming!  /\oo/\

 DB> Yep.  I use 4OS2 to replace OS/2 command processor and 4DOS
 DB> to replace COMMAND.COM in DOS boxes under OS/2.  I must
 DB> admit that I seldom dabble in batch programming since I
 DB> discovered REXX with OS/2 2.

Ditto here.  About half of 4OS2 and 4DOS utility is in the batch extensions,
and at least in OS/2, they are not that much of an extension, since REXX is
available.  The other half though, the command line enhancements and so on
still make 4OS2 a must have application.  IBM would have been much better off
buying Rex Conn and the 4DOS stuff for a few bucks than wasting $3,000,000,000 
on Lotus.  

                                              Jack 
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