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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT ausreg.com>
  • To: lforrestster AT gmail.com, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] long filenames Take Two 30
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:04:25 +1100

Hi Lee,

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:36:53 +0000
Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:32:27AM +1100, Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> [delete]
>
> Ron said:
>
> > > > And in my view, the best DOS prog that I would like to see
> > > > ported to Linux is Arachne.
<snippo>
> > > Have to say that doesn't interest me a bit. I don't like
> > > monolithic apps like that.
> >
> > Oh, it is not monolithic. :)
>
> Yes it is. "Monolithic" means that one is composed of a bunch of
> seperate apps.

Have a look in your dictionary. :)

> That's good, but size doesn't have anything to do with whether an
> app is monolithic or not.

Agreed. Monolithic means "all one piece".

> > It is actually a rather large collection of parts being
> > kept in the game by a kernel CORE.EXE.
>
> Why? I don't need any help from my browser to do email.

I am not suggestng you use it or anything. I just referenced it as the
main DOS program I would like ported to Linux.


> I can change browsers at will. You can't.

Actually, yes I can. Either in Linux or in DOS. And my email client,
and almost any other application that I use, some of which I have written
(for DOS, anyway).

But my needs are quite different to yours, so it is to be expected that I
would make different demands, and use different software in different ways,
to yourself.

Isn't it good that we are all different, otherwise it would be a boring
world. :)

Regards,
Ron

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