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Originally to: MIKE TRIPP

 MT> Hello bob!

 MT> 28 Oct 09 20:33, bob klahn wrote to MIKE TRIPP:

 bk>>  Do you remember Xtree? I use a 32 bit version called Ztree.
 bk>>  Ztree.com to find it.

 bk>>  Ztree has a batch builder function that can automate writing the
 bk>>  batch file to do the conversion.

 bk>>  If you like Dos you will like Ztree, and Xtree.

 MT> I used Q-DOS as my shell "training wheels" to transition
 MT> from the CP/M commandline to the DOS commandline (COPY had
 MT> so many more switches than PIP...and then there was the
 MT> option to XCOPY and more/different switches also<g>).  Like

 I started with the DOS command line, then went to Xtree.

 MT> your favorite text editor, the hotkey strokes eventually
 MT> flow like stream of consciousness and newcomers have to be
 MT> mighty impressive to preempt "old faithful".  So I remember
 MT> tinkering with Xtree and being impressed, but not enough to
 MT> discard my Q-DOS mastery to switch over...and I was pretty
 MT> self-sufficient at the commandline by that time also.

 Only Xtree is reincarneted for 32 bit as Ztree. Is Q-dos still
 around in any form?

 ...

 MT> archives in the file areas specifically, but even to this
 MT> day I still fire up Q-DOS from time to time when I need to
 MT> study/prune/graft directory trees on the Netware 3.11
 MT> server from DOS, OS2, or XP without waiting for several
 MT> minutes for GUIs to build a map.<g>

 I still use Xtree when I am doing some work from Dos, like
 running Norton Ghost, or System commander.



BOB KLAHN bob DOT klahn AT sev DOT org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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