On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 18:06, Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: > > Attached is a screen shot of what I used a long time ago for a menu program. > It is both similar to what the solution using V8 Power Tools is and what I > think you are wanting. It is a combination of a (complicated) batch file > along with a few utilities, some provided by DOS and some of my own.
Thanks very much for this! Yes, it's the kind of thing I experimented with doing at the end of the 1980s and start of the 1990s, using Norton Utilities tools and others. The snag was that I couldn't deploy it on customers' machines, because I couldn't rely on them having NU or whatever -- and businesses were often Not Happy about you putting shareware and so on onto production kit. (For comparison think of VirtualBox and the Extension Pack today. VBox is FOSS and free even for production use. The ExtPack is not and could result in a bill for $thousands. NB: don't confuse the VBox Extension Pack with the VBox Guest Additions, which are also free and FOSS.) I would like to make this look good and at least somewhat professional. Confronting a Windows user with DOS is going to cause culture shock anyway, but a numbered batch file and a "TYPE A NUMBER" prompt would be even worse, and I suspect that to 21st century users it would look very amateurish and give a bad impression. This is not a criticism of your work! FreeDOS is not MS-DOS or PC-DOS, but I think that many people many not realise just how far DOS got in the 1990s... And in some ways FreeDOS hasn't caught up, even now. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
