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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT ausreg.com>]

Hi Folks,

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:09:09 +0000, Lee Forrest wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:15:31AM +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:53:08 +0000, Lee Forrest wrote:

>> > Not being a M$ person, I don't have any idea what you are talking about
>> > there.

>> It's not MicroSoft, it is a feature common to most Disk Operating
>> Systems, at least for the IBM and IBM clone computers.

> DOS is M$. Baby Windows.

    In what way is that ?

>> The filenames are limited to eight characters with a three character
>> extension. Files with long filenames have a shorter version attached to
>> them to be compatible with this system.

> Lost me there.

    For a sharp guy, there seem to be a few surprising gaps in your knowledge 
of
DOS, be it MS-DOS, PC-DOS, FreeDOS or any of the many other "DOS sets.


> You picked the hard way to learn linux. But it'll pay off in the long run.
> I highly recommend the first 10 or so chapters of this course:

> wget -O - http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2 | tar -xvvjf -

> That'll bring it down and bunzip and untar it and put the files in a 
> directory
> called rute.html.

   You had better let Greg know how big that is going to be - 
he is running the loop version of BL3 with limited resources, and DOS is
not going to handle a file name like that.

Regards,
         Ron




Ron Clarke
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