27 May
1997
27 May
'97
3:55 p.m.
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Roger Merchberger wrote:
It is not easy to calculate how long it took for them
to kick the habit, as
the habit has not yet been kicked... think of it as still being on the
nicotine patch. The long filenames of Win95 are only a *bunch* of 8.3
filename placeholders conveniently disguised to the end user.
Yeah, what a waste. It probably would've been better to just live with
the 8+3!
Wanna waste a whole weekend over nothing? Run MS-DOS
6.22's scandisk/defrag
on a Win95 volume and see how long it takes you to straighten that mess
Wanna have a "I feel real stupid contest?"
I've done this TWICE!!! :(
Les