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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:15:42 -0400
- From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- In-Reply-To: <ewright.715970979@convex.convex.com>
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- ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- > 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".
- >
-
- OS/2 HPFS supports 254 character, multiple line file names, and if the
- DOS and most DOS and Windows programs running using data on HPFS
- partitions will do just fine with these file names
-
- > >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"
-
- people do things like this on Unix boxes all the time - it's not that
- hard, especially if you have file completion
-
- > 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)?
-
- WPS doesn't need a command line window - but it is rather convenient -
- I'd like a mac command line program too, but the only one's i've seen
- don't work with sys7 - and Work Place Shell is the real name - I don't
- know anyone who actually refers to it as the WPS in spoken
- conversation.
-