Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode

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From: Tom MacIntyre
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 00:00

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

>>> Here's where I disagree with both of you...
>>> DOS is still relevant for me...
>
>> I agree completely.  I can do just about anything
>> in DOS 20 times faster than I can do it in Windows.
>
>Thats only because you havent setup the Win properly.
>
>> Not to mention the fact that if you can't get into Windows,
>> you need to know DOS to get Windows working again.
>
>Complete crap.
>
>> DOS maybe old, but it's still an extremely important thing to know.
>
>Wrong, because that hardly ever happens, that you 'cant get into Windows'
>
>> I had someone that wanted to come work for me,
>> the first thing I did was give him a book on DOS.
>
>Your problem.
>
>
>
Well, they still teach DOS in most/many computer certification
programs, and there are times when a knowledge of DOS will help in the
event of a crash. It is also a basic knowledge of "DOS" that allows
setting up of folders, correctly unzipping files into temporary
folders, and using the Start-Run. 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. 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.

Tom

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From: tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca (Tom MacIntyre)
Subject: Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode
Date: 1999/08/21
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