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- From: g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu (Nick Zahariadis)
- Subject: Re: Os/2-aware floppy drives on the PS/2.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.095220.19095@cdf.toronto.edu>
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- Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility
- References: <1992Dec8.012642.29068@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec12.221015.12402@midway.uchicago.edu> <1gev8gINNbid@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 09:52:20 GMT
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- In article <1gev8gINNbid@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec12.221015.12402@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
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- [other stuff deleted]
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- >Once of nicest parts about formatting floppies on a Sun, that you can
- >tell it to eject when done, so you know when to put the next disk in.
- >
- >(btw, maybe you can mention to IBM to add a /beep option to format.exe,
- >so you know when it's finished. one of the drawbacks of having such
- >excellent multitasking, is that you forget to check the window to
- >see if it's done formatting)
-
- How about not! One of the things about multitasking systems is that if
- every program beeps at any given time during its execution, you pretty
- well end up with one long, long, really long beep. I've seen this happen
- on SUNs and it wasn't anywhere near "music to your ears".
-
- Then again, command-line swithes are optional, so no harm there.
-
- Nick.
-
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