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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 02:23:52 +0100
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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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