[GEM Development] Liam Proven! DOS in VirtualPC

[Liam Proven]

On 9 December 2017 at 21:49, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> Stuff like not needing separate parameters for commands -- e.g.
>> ``xcopy c: d: /sev'' instead of ``xcopy c: d: /s /e /v''  --  I see as
>> a definite advantage, but you can ignore that.
>
>
> And using a tweaked getopt(3) to parse arguments might allow that to work,
> as well as "xcopy /sev c: d:" - which would, arguably, be more user
> friendly, if it doesn't care where the switches are.

I think switches must be last, but I'm not sure.

However, I tried this last night, and it didn't work. Not on 7.01-7 anyway.

>> Stuff like the colon column separators in ``DIR /w'' are the only
>> hangover I know about.
>
> Eh, that's fine, that's a CP/Mism.

Exactly!

That's one of the only ways it behaves differently. So that's why I am
asking you what it is about it that is insufficiently MS-like for you!

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