Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/08/24/00:20:30
On 22 Aug, in article <4vip13$a9u AT flood DOT weeg DOT uiowa DOT edu>
robinson AT blue DOT weeg DOT uiowa DOT edu "The Amorphous Mass" wrote:
> ageless AT idir DOT net wrote:
> >Dan Pop wrote:
> >> >Which again just goes to show just what wonderful morons the Micro$oft
> >> >programmers are... or rather, the people who tell those programmers what
> >> >to do. I sometimes wonder if the term "user satisfaction" is even in
> >> >Bill Gates's vocabulary.
> >
> >If it bothers you so very much, get a DOS programming reference
> >or Ralf Browns Int list and use the undoc'ed DOS int to change it
> >to a forward slash.
>
> Check your attributions. Dan didn't write that.
Of course. The bit whih says `Dan Pop wrote' has two quote chars, hence it
was something he quoted. Someone obviously cut off Dan's attribution,
assuming it was there to begin with.
..splitbung http://www.tsys.demon.co.uk
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