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Number   :  1523
Date     :  2002-02-05
Author   :  Dwayne Reid
Subject  :  Re: DOS / Win 3.X compatibility vs. new features
Size(KB) :  1


At 02:37 PM 2/1/02 -0500, jdmaddison@m... wrote:
> > By the way, a number of people wanted to have XXCOPY follow
>some sorted order in file operations, notably, alphabetic,
>by-size, by-date, by-filename-length. The good news is
>we are working toward that direction. <
>
>Thanks!
>
> > But we are still supporting XXCOPY16.
>
>Are your paying customers paying for XXCOPY32 functionality or XXCOPY16? 
>Remember, Microsoft has abandoned support for DOS / Windows
>3.x. There should be no shame in saying that future improvements
>will be made to XXCOPY32 only. Chances are, the new features would
>not even be used in DOS. So many things are inaccessible there, not
>the least of which is CD-R or CD-RW support and Long FileNames.

All the more reason to support xxcopy16 - at least for now! You see - now 
is the time that all the die-hard DOS users have to finally start to wean 
themselves from 16 bit DOS and Windows. I'm one of those die-hard DOS 
users and I know of a great many others.

For example, I'm finally getting serious about migrating my main 
electronics CAD system to the current Win32 version - all those data files 
(thousands!) to convert. You better believe I want multiple levels of 
backup - both off-site as well as on-site. DCOPY (xxcopy's predecessor) 
and XXCOPY are helping me with the transition. And when I work with a 
system NOT running 32 bit windows, XXCOPY16 is what I need.

dwayne


Dwayne Reid 
Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA
(780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax

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