Re: A file that can be seen... but doesn't exist!

Michael Mol <mikemol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
CBFalconer wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:

[snip]

(Clone of the ancient and Very Good Norton Commander.)
Which in turn was a clone of an older CP/M program, name
forgotten.


Funny how the best ideas are often the oldest. :-)

Funny... how perception works.

It was a *great* program for CP/M. I suppose it wasn't bad
for MS-DOS too.

It's pretty worthless for UNIX and its derivatives, because
while the CP/M and MS-DOS command lines were extremely limited,
that wasn't true of a Unix shell even back then.

Of course the basics of a Unix shell are older than CP/M, never
mind that program to manipulate files (the name of which still
escapes me too). Just think... if only the folks that copied
CP/M had been interested in doing it *right*, and had begun by
designing MS-DOS to emulate UNIX rather than simply setting it
as a means to fleece customers.

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@xxxxxxxxxx
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