Re: COMMAND.COM for ProDOS 8

[rder@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Richard Der)]

jmaes@sonycsce.com (Jan A. J. Maes) 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.
>
>Command.com wasn't a shareware program but a commercial product
>published by Pinpoint Publishing.  Exactly what happened to Pinpoint
>I can't remember but I am pretty sure they are no longer around.
>Whether Command.com turned into a shaware or freeware/public domain
>program I really do not know but I doubt it.  None of the other
>Pinpoint products have, as far as I know. I could be wrong of course.
>
>Anyway, if the status of Command.com does indeed turn out to be freeware,
>I can send it to you.
 
According to Joe Kohn and Larry Woodard, in the article "Shareware
Bargains You've Never Dreamed Of" in the June 1991 issue of Incider/A+
magazine (the issue with the "Friends or Foes? Apple IIGS and Mac LC"
cover), COMMAND.COM's status at that time was shareware:
 
        "...Command.Com, a $45 shareware program by David Sugar
        and Les Kay. Command.Com is an MS-DOS work-alike...that
        insulates users from the ProDOS interface, and replaces
        it with an environment that works just like MS-DOS."
 
Probably after Pinpoint's demise, the authors released the program
as shareware. I read somewhere that it later became freeware, but
I can't be sure. Perhaps Joe Kohn could shed some light?
 
It would be much appreciated if, after the program's freeware status
is determined, you could post a copy to comp.binaries.apple2. Thanks!
 
 
dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:
>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.
 
I have increasingly found myself typing "dir" instead of "catalog"
and BONK, SYNTAX ERROR?. Then after I use it for a while and
return to the PC, I end up trying to use "/" instead of "\".
An MS-DOS clone for ProDOS 8 would make everything consistent.
An integrated Applesoft interpreter for the PC side would be nice
also, but that is just a dream. ;-)


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