🚀 go-pugleaf

"Rod Speed" <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

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>Tom MacIntyre <tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:37be8bd1.41615386@news1.ns.sympatico.ca...
>> Rod Speed <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> wrote
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>>>> I recently had to look at a laptop computer which had a defective
>>>> video circuit, and was a write-off (no display on its own or external
>>>> VGA port). I was able to get a directory printout and back up some
>>>> files to floppy using DOS... with Windows 3 or 95/98 it would have
>>>> been just about impossible, but with DOS it was easy.
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>>> Got SFA to do with what was being discussed, the
>>> partitioning of the boot drive and how that suits dos
>>> prompt ops. It would be completely mad to be partitioning
>>> the hard drive so that sort of rare stuff is more convenient.
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>>>> It's starting to look like you're so blinded by the opposition
>>>> you've gotten to some of your ideas that you're lashing out
>>>> without even considering what you're lashing out at.
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>>> Its been obvious all along that you cant manage to grasp what was
>>> being discussed, how to partition the boot drive for FAT32 Win9x.
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>> Hmmm...this thread has moved on,
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>Nope. No one ever said that DOS ops arent useful
>for techs that are dealing with recalcitrant systems.
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>ALL I said was that only dinosaurs do much at the DOS prompt in a
>working FAT32 Win9x system so it is completely pointless partitioning
>the boot drive in a way that makes that particular use more convenient.
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>> and yet you don't want to,
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>I'm quite happy to discuss whether DOS is any use when dealing
>with a system that cant boot etc. I have never ever said that doing
>that is a dinosaur approach. Even if you cant manage to grasp that.

No...you've drawn a line in the sand at low tide, and the tide has
come in, and your line is no good; it's been washed away, and you are
now treading water...or worse...

Tom