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Microsoft COBOL
Name: AdaZ Date: September 2, 2000 at 09:34:48 Pacific
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I can find practically any version of Microsoft BASIC for download. What about COBOL? Does anybody have Mirosoft COBOL PDS 4.0 (DOS)? I only use Microsoft languages!
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 2, 2000 at 14:39:53 Pacific
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Does anyone else dislike this person?
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Response Number 2
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 2, 2000 at 18:30:35 Pacific
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Why so, Jon? Microsoft makes good IDEs. I'd have to suggest he's possibly a sadist for choosing COBOL, but hey - it's a free country. Sadists are people too. :) Try maybe Turbo Pascal or Turbo C++ especially. They're both really good. This is from a guy who writes Visual Basic and Visual C++ all day long for work (obviously both Microsoft products.)
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Response Number 3
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 3, 2000 at 10:31:23 Pacific
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I wasn't talking about his choice of Microsoft IDE. The "I only use Microsoft languages!" statement is what riled me.
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Response Number 4
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 3, 2000 at 11:05:14 Pacific
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Oh, I didn't read it like THAT. :) Well then he has a very limited choice then, doesn't he. Seeing that Microsoft only came up with maybe one language - BASIC - and I'm sure Bill copied that off of Mac or someone.
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Response Number 5
Name: W0rm Date: September 3, 2000 at 15:21:08 Pacific
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and we all know microsoft makes the best dos programs! lol...has anyone tried compressing ATTRIB.EXE, EDIT.COM or any such utils with something like LZEXE, UPX or APACK?
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Response Number 6
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 3, 2000 at 19:49:15 Pacific
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I for one haven't. What happens if you do, W0rm?
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Response Number 7
Name: mr o Date: September 4, 2000 at 01:25:23 Pacific
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could it be that they are already compressed? i know that format.com is pkziped up. f u c k knows why... but why would you want to compress them anyway?
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Response Number 8
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 4, 2000 at 10:38:19 Pacific
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Save space? "DEL *.*" 100% compression ratio.
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Response Number 9
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 4, 2000 at 12:22:40 Pacific
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Only for the current directory. "deltree c:\*" would be more effective. :P
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Response Number 10
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 4, 2000 at 13:42:21 Pacific
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format /q, much more efficient.
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Response Number 11
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 4, 2000 at 14:17:32 Pacific
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