17 Dec
2011
17 Dec
'11
9:09 a.m.
On 17 Dec 2011 at 13:00, Liam Proven wrote:
Joking aside, I have considered it. I honestly think a
decent
Win9x/NT-style DOS shell for Linux would help its adoption by Windows
techies moving across. The main snag being that C21 Windows techies
barely use the CLI at all and are not really skilled in it, whereas
1990s or even 1980s MS techies probably know Unix already.
Has anyone here used CENVID--an interpreted C-- type of shell on DOS,
OS/2 or NT? It's in the SIMTEL collection from about 1995 or so.
There are 16 bit real, protected and Win32 versions.
I found it to be quite handy when taking files from other systems
with strange names and converting them into something that most
DOS/Windows apps would be comfortable with.
It was sold by Nombas, which seems to have long gone bye-bye.
--Chuck