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To: Revolting cat!
LOL, you've got it wrong, my FRiend .... I'm a command-line jockey going back 25+ years! I'd certainly hope no one takes me for a (hardly "superior") Progressive.

Besides, Allen Luddite was one of my heroes -- you know, he came up with the Password concept:

153 posted on 06/15/2013 4:41:22 PM PDT by mikrofon (Although, he *did* marry Betty White...)
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To: mikrofon

OK then.


159 posted on 06/15/2013 5:34:39 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: mikrofon

It’s not just nostalgia for the good old days of command line interfaces, it’s a regret that a simple and powerful command line interface to the OS was not put into Windows, even though Windows was designed by David Porter (?) whom MS hired away from DEC, which had DCL running under VMS, later OpenVMS, perhaps the best ever OS shell, which continued to be available as VMS gained its own windows interface.

I don’t know this new Windows shell, mentioned above, that I’ve heard of but never used. Can it get into the guts of the OS? can it update the registry, or view it? Can it show us what the OS is doing right now?


161 posted on 06/15/2013 6:18:18 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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