> On 10/17/2017 8:44 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
[..]
>> (1) What does "Base" mean in 2017 or 2018? I think there are some
>> packages we might take out of "Base" and move into a "Compat" package
>> group, such as:
>>
>> APPEND
>> ASSIGN
>> GRAPHICS
>> JOIN
>> SUBST
>> others?
> I'll admit that I'm the fence on the "Compat" thing, so I'm looking
> for others' opinions here.
>
> On one hand, I'd bet these utils aren't really used anymore on
> *modern* systems, or in Virtual Machines / PC Emulators. So moving
> these to "Compat" makes sense for modern users. I actually use SUBST a lot
> and sometimes also use ASSIGN, but not the others you have listed. They are
> actually necessary for the way I do things on my modern systems -- they allow
> me to keep my drive letters consistent no matter where I run DOS from
> (booting to real DOS, running DOS in a VM, and even running it on different
> machines). DOS programs tend to be pretty picky about drive letters, and
> keeping them consistent allows me to just copy things back and forth as I
> need with very few problems and much less confusion.
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