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echo: bluewave
to: mark lewis
from: Dan Ceppa
date: 2005-12-10 16:08:10
subject: Copy/paste

On 09 Dec 05  19:04:47, mark lewis got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Copy/paste

 DC> What I like about SWITCHER is that I can have multiple DOS 
 DC> apps open.  They don't run in the background, but I don't 

 ml> times change... and with them, some procedures, too... when i ran
 ml> straight DOS, i did the textfile thingy... when i ran DESQview, i
 ml> moved on to advanced procedures that worked great... then i (somehow)
 ml> got into windows v3 and after that OS/2 and, further on, into OS/2 and
 ml> win9x when it came out... in all those environments, i've used their
 ml> builtin capabilities and not looked at, for or relied on third party
 ml> programs to do what was native in those environments... 

Most all of the stuff I need for FIDO is DOS based.  The primary 
reason for WIN for me is large HD support.  

 Directory of C:\NODE\BWAVE                        
                                                   
04/07/2004  06:32 PM             4,289 MEMOR.TXT   
01/26/2004  07:01 PM                62 MEMORIES.TXT
               2 File(s)          4,351 bytes      
               0 Dir(s)  23,638,802,432 bytes free 
                                                   
BTW, I cut and pasted the above in ~5 seconds...  

For what I do, it works better than messing with WIN directly...



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