RE: For what purpose is DOS still being used? (Was eRPG)

I might be sticking my nose where it don't belong, but you can write some nice little .bat programs in DOS to transfer data to and from the 400.  We use them every day.  Works great.

Also, I see about 10 .bat programs being run every time I log on to Windows NT, if that means anything.

Feel free to ignore this message, or call me an idiot for butting in.

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan M. Andelin
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Sent: 6/27/00 11:52 AM
Subject: For what purpose is DOS still being used? (Was eRPG)

Hans Bolt wrote:

>BTW, for what purpose is DOS still being used
>among your users?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints still uses DOS.  The
financial, membership, calendaring, and other systems used in most
congregations are DOS based.  Their popular Personal Ancestral File
(Genealogy) program is DOS based.  Several of the "Family History"
systems are DOS based.

Is the church anti-technology?  No.  On the contrary, the church also
has
some of the most modern systems available.

I can only speculate that many of their systems are DOS based because
the
church feels the resources it would take to upgrade to Pentium-Windows
systems would be better spent elsewhere.  From personal experience,
I can say the DOS based software is high quality.

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