well, i received an email from somebody with further comments about this software, i'll withhold his name since that seems to be the reason he's emailed, rather than signed up on the board, anyway, here's what he said:
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We were shooting the breeze around the office on a Friday and I
mentioned PathMinder in a conversation. I googled to find out what
happened and ran across your forum. I really didn't want to join
because I am afraid of Bill Gates (jk), but thought you might want to
post some info for the poor guy who started trying to find out what it
was.
PathMinder was a textbased semi-gui solution to the limitations of DOS
which had its demise written on the release of Windows 3.0. History is
actually on Wikipedia. I used it as standard operating equipment on
all my client's machines because no matter where they were when they
called me for service, I could give them a precise set of keystrokes
that would help me solve their problem. Those were the days. People
still aren't any smarter, too bad nothing exists like that anymore.
Good luck tilting at the windmill that is Microsoft.