From: foxidrive@server.invalid   
      
   On 14/12/2013 00:59, Harry Potter wrote:   
   > On Thursday, December 12, 2013 7:07:35 PM UTC-5, pedro wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:32:02 -0800 (PST), Harry Potter   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>> On Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:01:42 PM UTC-5, Robert Roland wrote:   
   >>>> Does it have to be batch? Batch on DOS based machines is quite puny   
   >>>> stuff.   
   >>>>   
   >>> Understood.  On the DOS computer, I could use VBDOS Pro 1.0 to do my work,   
   but that doesn't help on the Win98 computer.   
   >>   
   >> Why not?  I use non-Pro VB-DOS 1.0 (there wasn't any other version   
   >> number) in Win98SE all the time, and have written commercial apps in   
   >> it on that platform for DOS and Win(<=4) platforms.   
   >   
   > It can be done, but what about the long filenames?   
      
   People are throwing away computers with later operating system on them, on   
   freecycle and council hard   
   rubbish collections.  The bulk of them are probably far faster than a Win 98   
   era PC - can you score one   
   of them?   
      
   Then you can develop some apps in VB script using WSH and enjoy the better   
   operation of something like XP.   
      
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