"David" == David Elliott dfe@infinite-internet.net writes:
... David> Win4Lin's "dos" command has some options that select whether you David> want to create a new window (the default) or input/output from David> stdin/out. This allows commands to be redirected. In this mode David> you cannot run any programs that require any sort of access to David> hardware like directly writing into the character buffer. On the David> upside, you can run sort and expect it to work correctly. Since David> there are very few DOS programs designed for this you have to David> explicitly give the option, most users would just want to have a David> nice window opened where their DOS app can run. David>...
There are a lot of dos compilere out there that I want to run on the genuine commandline and not in a separate dos. In my eyes that's one plus of winedos against all other competitors....
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