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Number   :  103
Date     :  2001-05-20
Author   :  james sadler
Subject  :  Re: XXCOPY, Freeware for personal users only
Size(KB) :  2



--- Kan Yabumoto  wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim:
> 
> In my posts, I was specifically concerned about how
> to increase the
> membership to this group. I'm not discussing how to
> increase the
> traffic to XXCOPY's website and ultimately how to
> increase the
> revenue of Pixelab (I was simply making it clear
> that XXCOPY is a
> freeware to personal use but has a "hidden" agenda
> with commercial
> users).
> 
> But, my discussion since yesterday was still focused
> on how this
> group can grow which should be of this group's
> interest (the revenue
> issue and XXCOPY's overall popularity is Pixelab's
> interest).
> 
> So, let us continue focusing on the issue of how to
> bring in more
> member to this group (not to XXCOPY in general for
> now).
> 
> Kan Yabumoto
> 
>
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> 
> I liked DOS far more than anyone I know so I
have a certain attachment to command line utilities
like xxcopy. But I think I am a bit of a rare species.
Most people want nothing to do with DOS or the command
line at all. I suppose that there are professional
computer people who do want to drop back into DOS for
various reasons as well as some of us old timers but I
wonder where the future is for xxcopy and many other
command line programs that are focused on Windows
platforms.
I'm not real sure that any Windows systems are going
to be main stream for too much longer
. My ignorance may show a bit in wondering if xxcopy
could be compiled in a java type language so that it
became transportable across many operating systems.
Or, perhaps xxcopy could be compiled with a GUI in
such a way that it was operated from Windows so that
the herd of Windows users that no nothing of DOS might
feel it is ok to use it.
Frankly I have never been happier than when I ran
IBM PC DOS with 4dos on top of it. Everything could be
kept so tightly organized and in a way everything was
simple. But bucking the tide makes for a lonely
computer user.
Just another idle thought but just maybe xxcopy
could be integrated with other software to give it
some leverage on the eyeballs of lust. I have a peice
of freeware that does defrag before Windows loads so
that it has complete sys resources at hand and is
faster. I could see xxcopy doing an auto backup as the
other program did a defrag and also my Reg Compactor
program could also run in one swoop. That would be
neat.


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