Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/10/20:41:20
Once upon a time (on 10 Feb 97 at 5:01) mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on. said:
> > are more afraid of digits than letters (and we can't forget that the
> > system is very likely to be used by complete newbies /to be gentle ;-))/)
>
> I was joking. :o) I don't think more drive letters are needed
> for any reason at all as long as the MOUNT utility is made
> available in DOS. Drive letters like "AA:" wouldn't be
> compatible with existing software anyways, and how would you hack
> it so that they _would_ work? It would be really messy. By the
> way, my SYS$WHATEVER example above was a joke too. It was a kick
> at VMS.
;-))))))) Silly me... I guess I was half-asleep at the time I wrote that and,
as a result, gravely serious ;-))
> > > Then to go to the next drive you would type:
> > >
> > > SYS$DISKDRIVENUMBER1:[UTILS\NORTON]> SYS$DISKDRIVENUMBER2:
> > Or 'AB' ;-)
>
> Sounds like it is prone to a lot of problems to me.
Well, well... ;-)
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