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Tom MacIntyre <tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:37bd4581.42413857@news1.ns.sympatico.ca...
> Todd <Post_to_group_only@nospam.com> wrote

>>>> My encyclopedia and movie/music guides are on D: REFERENCE.

>>> It would make a lot more sense to have that D: Data.

>>> But you cant have A: Apps or P: Programs.

>> So type DIR and read the label.

> DIR/S is even better, if necessary...

You dont need to type anything when the naming is logical and rememberable.

>>>> At the DOS prompt,

>>> Hardly anyone uses the DOS prompt anymore. Dinosaur stuff.

>> That's the only place your arguments had
>> any meaning! Geez, get with the program.

> Here's where I disagree with both of you...
> DOS is still relevant for me...

Says SFA about how many its relevant for today.

There are always some dinosaurs dinosauring away with
any computing technology, its the nature of the beast.

>>>> I can go from a directory three levels deep on one
>>>> drive, to a directory five levels deep on another drive.
>>>> I can go back and forth just by typing the drive letter.

>>> And its even easier with shortcuts etc. The world's moved on.

>>>> With one drive, you have to continuously retype in
>>>> the entire path for which directory you are going to.

>>> No one with any sense types stuff like that anymore.

> In DOS, DOSKEY lessens this type of activity...

Duh. And bugger all bother with that dinosaur
approach anymore. The world's moved on.

> when Windows is in trouble, one still has to be able to use DOS...

Wrong. And that says SFA about how things are done routinely anyway.