re re re challenge to microsoft supporters in article may vax clarku edu rmohns vax clarku edu writes and i would hardly call a command that can delete a tree and a move command as a state of the art wiz bang feature they are damn necessary i have often cursed not being able to have some kind of recursive delete you are missing something with the windows file manager you can ms but i don t want to have to run blasted windows every time i want to delete a tree it is absolutely ludicrous to load a hog like that just to delete some files it would be like requiring a crane to change the tyre on a car wants people to buy windows not dos ms knows dos won t last forever only because its crap which is noones fault but their own they want you to move to windows then later to win and eventually to cairo this way they give you a reason to by deliberately crippling the product surely no oh hold on i guess you re right that certainly stinks of microsoft marketing techniques but the point still remains that a command to delete trees is not new technology and is the kind of thing one would have expected to see long before windows was even dreamt of want good file handling use fileman exe this product requires microsoft windows dos is dead well amen to that but i wish it were a damn sight deader for a dead product its used an awful lot and i suspect its going to carry on twitching for a long while yet which isn t doing anyone any good and microsoft don t appear to have given up marketing dos so it is a very unusual form of death indeed tim walls sysop protocol bbs data fax fidonet amiganet twalls ncc d demon co uk pgp public key available
