22 Jan
2007
22 Jan
'07
8:20 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Jules Richardson once stated:
Hmm. DOS does have the advantage of not getting in the way of doing such
things (and I've already got a DOS PC for Imagedisk work). Plus it's nice
to have short startup times (and even faster shutdown ;)
The only downsides:
1) Lack of long filename support (if I'm archiving something I prefer to
give it a long name rather than having to poke into the archive contents to
see what something is),
2) Lack of remote administration (control via serial port or network
would be handy in some cases).
You can do #2---in the late 80s/early 90s, I used to log in to my friend's
BBS and drop to DOS to fix problems. The limitations were pretty tough
though---I couldn't run any programs that bypassed MS-DOS for I/O (so the
only editor I could use was EDLIN for instance).
But yes, it's fairly straightforward.
-spc (Which, horrid as it was, was much more user friendly than Unix's
ed ... )