Re: COMMAND.COM for ProDOS 8

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Richard Der (rder@pro-palmtree.cts.com) wrote:
:  
: Does anyone know where COMMAND.COM for P8 can be found? This was a
: neat little shareware shell that replaced BASIC.SYSTEM and works
: exactly like MS-DOS. It was later released by the authors as
: freeware.

Why would you want to do a thing like that?!  Yeesh!  I'd rather take
BASIC.SYSTEM and add in the DOS 3.3 commands that got left out (INIT, MON,
NOMON all come to mind...) and change the PREFIX syntax to emulate the 'cd
..' command found in MS-DOS, UNIX, AmigaDOS, OS/2, etc.
  
: The package also includes some 100 DOS style utilities that does
: things that BASIC.SYSTEM does not, such as format disks and drive
: a modem.


Well, admittedly, COPY would be nice...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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