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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:49:39 GMT
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- In <92252.141443ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> Michael Bode writes:
-
- >No it doesn`t and yes it does. The name of the diskette is not A: it is a name
- >of up to 11 characters that is almost never used. At least I don`t know anyone
- >who gives names to his floppies (except mac users exchanging disks with PC`s).
-
- I don't see what exchanging disks with PCs has to do with naming disks.
- Maybe you think Mac users are just doing this to annoy you. I name all
- my floppies *except* the ones I exchange with PCs. It makes it easier
- to know what's on them. I bet most other Mac users do the same thing,
- even if they never exchange disks with PCs at all.
-
- You see, the Macintosh is smart enough that it actually knows what
- floppy disk is in the drive at any given time. On the PC, if you're
- saving your work on a certain disk, then remove that disk to do some
- other task, and forget to change disks back before you save your work
- again, you may end up saving your latest version on the wrong disk
- without ever knowing it. Several days later, when you insert the disk
- you *thought* you'd saved it on, you find that your latest work just
- isn't there. That won't happen on the Mac because you can see the name
- of the disk you're saving it to.
-
-
- >A: is the name of the DRIVE and that can be changed to almost everything.
-
- Almost anything? Well, in English, there are lots of things that you
- can't fit into 11 characters. Like "Price Carl Wayne's floppy." And I
- know for damn sure that there are lots of things in German that you
- can't fit into 11 characters. And those 11 characters can't include
- spaces, mixed cases, or punctation marks like in this example. At least,
- not in DOS or MS Windows. Maybe this is different in OS2, but even if it
- is, I'll bet that those DOS and Windows programs you're running under OS2
- will go ballistic if you type in file name like "Michael Bode's New File".
-
-
- >Just ALT-click on the disk icon title and type something you like. That
- >only works in WPS but in a command line window nobody would like to use
- >a drive name like "Price Carl Wayne`s floppy"
-
- So, if WPS is great, why do you need a command-line window? For that
- matter, if WPS is so great (and intuitive), why don't you call it by
- a real name, instead of yet another TLA (three-letter acronym)?
-
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