Re: Novice question: how to boot from a bat file?

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From: Tony Porczyk
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:36

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ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:

>In article <adgn1#p.messina@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
>>begin 666 reset.com
>>1ND``CMJ[<@#'!S02Z@``__\`
>>It's not too long :-), after uudecoding it should be 17 bytes long.
>
>Yes I know it is certainly not too long, but whether just a few
>characters or hundreds of lines, please do not use this practice. 
>Here is the why:
>-From: garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq29.zip Frequently Asked Questions

Well, not to get picky, but the uuencoded post was 1 line long, your
preaching was 5 pages long.  Talk about a waste of bandwith.

t.

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From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
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Subject: Re: Novice question: how to boot from a bat file?
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