Date: Mon, 24 Oct 94 13:14:08 CDT
From: mmeyer AT rts DOT dseg DOT ti DOT com (Mark Meyer)
To: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp
Cc: SOLYOM AT HUBME51 DOT BITNET, DJGPP AT SUN DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: LS for DOS


> I agree too, and was really looking forward to using ms_sh22.
> Unfortunately, MS Shell 2.2 didn't like DESQview/X 1.1, didn't like
> GO32 very much, and didn't like GNU Make 2.69 and 2.70 at all.  So I
> gave up and went to Linux for general shell programming.  I'd give 2.3
> a try, except that I can't live without multi-tasking anymore, so why
> bother.

	Stephen Turnbull's points are well taken: MS Shell 2.3 may or
may not be right for you.  My own situation is different from his.  I
only have a 386sx system with a 40M hard drive and 1MB of RAM.  I'm
not trying to do any djgpp development (then why am I here?  I still
like to know what's happening), I don't do DESQview, or Windows (y'all
probably already guessed that when I described my system).  Unlike
Stephen, I _do_ need DOS.  I have too many existing applications and
too little space to use Linux or the like.  I wanted a DOS system with
a Unixoid interface, and MS Shell works fine for me.  Try it.  If you
don't like it, I promise not to cry. :-)

-- 
Mark Meyer                                               | mmeyer AT dseg DOT ti DOT com |
Texas Instruments, Inc.,  Plano, TX                      +--------------------+
Every day, Jerry Junkins is grateful that I don't speak for TI.
         "Benson, you are so mercifully free from the ravages of intelligence."