Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/15/03:39:22
On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > > > CTRL-J in PINE.
> > > Or add a verification: ARE YOU SURE! [Y/N]
> > And then after you type 'YES' out in full and hit enter, it asks
> > you to type in the volume label from C: in DOS for confirmation.
>
> Hmmm, getting a >little< extreme?
A *little* perhaps. But I could be more extreme. :o) Make it
ask which line numbers you want to justify and you must enter
each line number separated by a comma. 1,2,3,4,5...
Hehehe.
> > > > > We could call them something else, call them DLD, Dynamicly Loaded Driver.
> > > > How about the extension ".Dynamically_Loaded_Driver_Module".
> > > \Extended_Filesystem_Number_2.Dynamically_Loaded_Driver_Module
> > > This _jams_!!, by utilizing the algorithm I proposed of using the first
> > > becomes EXTEFN~2.DLD to a dos 8.3 program!
> >
> > What if I allready have a file called EXTEFN~2.DLD in that
> > directory? I mean the chances are very small, however I could
> > simply create one just to prove my point. Then the algorithm
> > would break. A better method is the mangled name method that
> > DOSemu uses in LREDIR.
> >
> > \ would be interpreted as a directory path, so if you said:
> > COPY FILE1.txt \
>
> No, only if the line is _longer_ than the the width of the screen, it'd
> pop the entire line from the parsed point so you don't have a, (lets say)
> critical filename split from right to left.
Ok, I think I see what you mean now. What about pathnames > 80
characters? We could program logic to have it switch video modes
to 132x50. :o)
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