home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!chemabs!lwv26
- From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Subject: Re: Apple Stupidity .....
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.165236.29863@cas.org>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.apple2
- Sender: usenet@cas.org
- Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
- References: <9209131526.AA28095@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:50:08 GMT
- Lines: 18
-
- In article <9209131526.AA28095@apple.com> FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL ("ERIC S FORD") writes:
- :>(Suggestion to Andy Nicholas for the next version of ShrinkIt: how
- :>about prohibiting the creation of disk archives of ProDOS disks?
-
- :This is computer facism at its worst!! Simply because it frustrates you
- :is no reason to restrict a capability from someone else. If you really
- :want some experience with programs written that way, try the majority of
- :MS-DOS wares.
- :
-
- Wouldn't it just be better for someone to write a routine to extract the
- files folk need from one of these archives? Or is that one of the things
- that Apple II programmers just cannot do?
- --
- Larry W. Virden UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lvirden
- Same Mbox: BITNET: lvirden@cas INET: lvirden@cas.org
- Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614
- America Online: lvirden@aol.com
-