Re: Warp drive letter agnosticity

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From: Michael Baldwin Bruce
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:54

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Dickless Davie tholen@antispam.ham the ignorant Ignoranus whined:
> William L. Hartzell writes:
>
> > <snip>
> >
> > If it is impossible for you to conceive that a program might check its
> > running environment, then the ideal of cleaning up that environment will
> > escape you.  That in a nutshell is the basis of my suggestion.
>
> If it is impossible for you to conceive that the running environment
> does not come from CONFIG.M when the system has been booted
> using CONFIG.SYS, then the true nature of the problem will escape
> you.  Cleaning up an environment that doesn't get used is a waste
> of time.  Go ahead and type SET and see for yourself if any of those
> environment variable in CONFIG.M with C: in them are active on
> your system.

How ironic and priceless.

> If it is impossible for you to conceive that a program with
> C:\OSO001.MSG
> hardcoded into it isn't using the environment for that file location,
> then
> once again the true nature of the problem will escape you.
>
> > Bruce, take you sarcasm elsewhere, please.
>
> You obviously don't know enough about Bruce if you think he'll pay
> any attention to you.  That much should have been obvious by noting
> all the irrelevant newsgroups that he added to the distribution.

On what basis do you make that k'lame, Dickless?

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From: "Michael Baldwin Bruce" <mbbruce@mighty.co.za>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.bugs,comp.os.os2.advocacy,rec.music.classical,alt.astronomy,demon.local
Subject: Re: Warp drive letter agnosticity
Date: 15 Feb 2006 13:54:20 -0800
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