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- From: jtv@asd01-10.dial.xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 05:27:39
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <31548ecf.14041829@news.onramp.net> dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
- > On 22 Mar 1996 10:55:24 GMT, proux@enstb.enst-bretagne.fr (PROUX
- > Guillaume) wrote:
- >
- > >But you think about what you said... Nobody would be fool enough like on
- > >PCs to put more than a few 50-100 files in the same dir... Or you are just
- > >a fool!
- >
- > Oh, wonderful logic. :)
- >
- > Just -why- would I be a fool to put 50-100 files+ into a single DOS
- > dir? Data is data; if I want to, what does it matter?
-
- Because the 8.3 upper-case filenames would be hard to tell apart.
-
- Oh wait, that's another good reason to upgrade all your apps! I wonder why the
- market isn't simply taking that solution. According to InfoWorld, Win95 apps
- sales are far below expectations all across the board (except perhaps MS
- itself).
-
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
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