Subj : Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? To : R.A.G. Seely From : meirman Date : Tue Feb 05 2002 03:45 am From: meirman@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (meirman) Subject: Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? From: meirman@invalid.com In comp.os.msdos.4dos on Tue, 05 Feb 2002 03:59:51 GMT "R.A.G. Seely" posted: >meirman wrote in >news:qj8s5usmh3bemoud0fpcm263hvng62e47v@4ax.com: > >> R.A.G, you fell for what Steve *said* outsider's opinion was. You >> shouldn't do that any more than one should believe what one politician >> says other politician says. > >I think not - I was quoting an earlier post of mine, that pre-dated >Steve's, in which I reported a conversation with a collegue who still has a >copy of the un-numbered first version of MS-DOS (actually, PC-DOS in those >days), and in which the documentation clearly indicates that command.com >may be replaced by the user's own command interpreter, and that the OS does >not include that interpreter (not theirs either). I also indicated that >the terms used in this discussion were so ill-defined and used in so many But this is all about the what you and your colleague said, and about the situation regarding OSes. I'm not referring to the facts about OSes but just to what you said about Outsider. I tried to tag my response to you onto a response to Steve, and I apologize for that. That's how come I didn't quote your words that I was referring to, but all Outsider said were two lines: >So you think there is only one person in the world called Bruce >Springsteen?? ... >No. It proves you are either not an adult or not a very mature person. Then you said: >(I also mentioned that Outsider's argument if applied >to that version would have basic as part of the OS. Command.com was >shipped as part of that package, but if you didn't use external >peripherals, then "cassette basic" was the UI you ended up with at that >time.) Outsider didn't make an argument in this thread. He just made light of what Steve said. Perhaps you were referring to something some time ago, but it looked like you were endorsing Steve's version here of what Outsider thinks. Combine that with the fact that that Outsider himself responded "Not my opinion, why do you say it is?" >ways that any statement is bound to be opinion, not fact. Including >Outsider's claims to a factual response. It is all opinion. (Mine too.) You are concentrating on making your point that it is a matter of opinion, and missing the fact that Outsider doesn't believe, as fact OR opinion, what Steve said he does. Maybe you didn't buy into what Steve said about his views but it looked that way. I hope there are no hard feelings. >-= rags =- meirman@QQQerols.com If you email me, please let me know whether remove the QQQ or not you are posting the same letter. -- |Fidonet: meirman 1:342/3 | | Origin: The Cereal Port BBS (603)899-3335 199.125.78.133 (1:132/152) --- # Origin: (1:132/152.4) * Origin: Baddog BBS (1:218/903) .