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[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "David" == David Elliott <dfe at 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....

Bye

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