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Tom MacIntyre <tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:37c1f8e3.266179284@news1.ns.sympatico.ca...
> Rod Speed <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> wrote
>> Tom MacIntyre <tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote

>>>> Even you should be able to grasp that they are a tiny subset
>>>> of the total Win users. Adequately covered by the 'hardly anyone'

>>> This "tiny subset" consists of those who solve
>>> others' problems with Windows, and/or their own,

>> Nope, plenty arent silly enough to be furiously bashing away on the keyboard
>> at the dos prompt for much of that stuff and only use the dos prompt for the
>> most basic stuff like doing a clean install or running scandisk on the boot drive.

>> Where the quotes start right at the top was preceeded by a discussion
>> about doing file manipulation at the dos prompt on a working Win9x system.
>> NOT whats done on a system that cant even boot Win9x in safe mode etc.

>> No point in hacking off the context and proceeding to rave on
>> about what wasnt even being discussed there. That only produces
>> dills like you claiming that I have changed my position on the use
>> of the dos prompt when I have done absolutely nothing of the kind.

> I certainly haven't raved,

You've claimed quite a few times that I have changed my
position on  the use of the dos prompt. That is complete crap.

> and I have tried to balance BW preservation with retaining pertinent clips...

You werent actually the one that produced that particular
obscenity of a bleeding chunk 'quote', as should have been
obvious from the 'that only produces dills like you claiming'

> you do it by quoting an entire post...

Sometimes I do, sometimes I dont.

> I don't...I might miss a time or two...strange that nobody else complains of this...

Doesnt matter a damn what anybody else complains about, its completely
trivial to have a look at the context that particular statement was made in,
furiously bashing away at the dos prompt on a working FAT32 Win9x system.

And even more trivial to see that I have often suggested a particular
dos prompt op when thats appropriate, like a clean Win9x install,
use of the Win98 startup floppy to check that the cdrom subsystem
is working and to distinguish between a hardware problem and a
problem with the configuration of the drivers etc, and doing stuff like
tracerts and pings with whats sure to be on the system already.

And its now become obvious that you dont actually have
the balls to admit to that spectacular footshot you made.
Thats one of the problems with usenet, that footshot of
yours is there for all to see forever now. And that you
dont have the balls to admit to having done it.

>>> and is hardly to be dismissed in such fashion.

>> Sure is in the context that the quotes from me were made in at the top.

> How can you mention context, when you have
> perpetrated the butchery you've done here?...

Because its completely trivial for anyone with half a brain to
check what the context was if they doubt what I said there.

> a lot of what your post contains was NOT together,
> at least from my server, and in my memory.

Your problem. There are plenty of other obvious ways to check it, like deja.

> rest snipped...MAYBE later, if you're not careful...

Pathetic really.