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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:05:32 -0500
- From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec17.075003.3502@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- alasnik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Lasnik) writes:
- > The perception, in part, was caused by dos-idiots noticing "pieces
- > of their text files" embedded in a cache file created by Prodigy.
- > The "pieces of info" were just deleted text segments that DOS took
- > over when a new file was created.
-
- I don't know prodigy's specific case, but dos puts all sorts of nasty
- stuff on the disk sector after the eof all the time. Take Norton
- Utilities and just start looking around at files with the hex editor,
- and on any sufficiently large files you'll start to notice all sorts
- of wierd stuff that looks like it's in the file, but isn't when you
- open it up using any sort of text editor, etc.
-
- > Prodigy has:
- -Niftier censorship
- > In my opinion, Compu$erve is highly overrated, ridiculously
- > overpriced, and terribly unfriendly. So there.
-
- I don't know about the terribly unfriendly, but I'd have to agree with
- the other two...
-
-
- -- faisal jawdat | "Certainly the game is rigged.
- email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu | Don't let that stop you;
- if mail handler barfs | if you don't bet, you can't win."
- fj05@andrew.cmu.edu | -Lazarus Long
-