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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Novice question: how to boot from a bat file?
- Message-ID: <t0gn_fr.messina@netcom.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 01:36:27 GMT
- References: <1992Aug30.033912.729@u.washington.edu> <adgn1#p.messina@netcom.com> <1992Aug30.205151.18716@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: Messina Software
- Lines: 16
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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.
-