08-27-15 15:43 NANCY BACKUS wrote to ED VANCE about Re: tag  was: Mods

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 -=> Quoting Ed Vance to Nancy Backus on 08-14-15  21:23 <=-
Howdy! Nancy,
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 NB>> Most recently, I used to use the Win95 that my DOS had been the
 NB>> base for... I'd type in "win" on the command line, and it would
 NB>> load windows for me...  Now, though, the resident Wizard has
 NB>> uninstalled it, and put linux on my box to do that sort of
 NB>> thing... you might guess, though, that it isn't something I do
 NB>> at all frequently...  More new magic spells that I need the
 NB>> wizard around for if I do try to use them... :)

 EV> Ask Your Wizard if Your MS-DOS 7.0 has DOSSHELL in it.
 EV> If so, try it out, I liked using it instead of the Program Manager in
 EV> Win3.1 on that 486 pc sometimes.

 NB> Why would I need DOSSHELL if I'm just staying in DOS...?  Most
 NB> of my dos programs let me shell to dos if necessary while in
 NB> them anyway...

DOSSHELL I 'think' could be called a DOS GUI HDD manager program.
It was a program that came in MS-DOS 5.0 when my 486 was built.

Before I started using LIST.COM I used it to see what was in a file.

I learned a lot using the DOS HELP v5.0 and v6.2 that I ordered from
Flambeau(sp?) Software.

It is a much better HELP that the HELP file that MS included in their
DOS's.
Most pages have Hyperlinks to other subjects on the disk.

Am I alone in using that DOS HELP program?
Or have You or anyone else reading this message used it too?

Ed


... Dain bramaged.
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