The problem is that DOS has a different API. Calling it a DOS window may lead someone to expect that he can run an old DOS application in it, which he can only do in certain versions of windoze. I know that m$ wanted to kill that asd part of killing off the 32-bit API; I don't know whether they had to back off from that position.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 1:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access I'm an old guy. (Maybe a lot of us are.) I still call it "the DOS window" in my head, I think because I predate Win 3.1; for a long time I was a plain DOS user (the PC DOS, not the early mainframe DOS). Win 3.1 wasn't really a Windows operating system as it's understood now; DOS was the OS, and Win 3.1 sat on top of it as ISPF sits on top of TSO, providing a user interface. So for quite a while I did a lot of work in "the DOS window" even after Windows was around. Still do, from time to time, when I want a particular kind of file listing ("dir xyz*.docx>x.txt") or file rename. Or (non-encrypted) FTP. Yeah, I meant what I guess is now cmd.exe --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. -Confucius */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 20:15 Is "DOS" the same as "cmd.exe"? The latter seems clearer. --- On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:58:07 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >No flames from me but Windows "DOS" FTP has no TLS support -- is that not >right? > >Not needed in every situation but required in some. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
