"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02 Dec 2001:
>> 1. I remember you once stating that you have limited experience in >> programing and as an example you mentioned that years ago you used >> to edit autoexec.bat files for MS DOS. That was vey funny. > > I believe it was very limited. and the use of the Autoexec or > config.sys files was to show how limited it was. That is not programming. That is editing a text file >> >> 2. You have made comments about how to format a PC drive showing >> your ignorance about FDISK vs. c:\format c: command. I am just >> amazed about how a person can keep making erroneous comments like >> this in a public setting. You even implied that a person using >> that command could wipe a HD clean by mistake. It would have taken >> quiote a few mistakes in a row before a complete reformat of a >> drive could have happened. > > > There "is" a difference between fdisk and Init (Intialize) there is no "Init" on a PC. In order to accidently FDISK a drive, you must type: fdisk y (if on Win 95B or higher) 3 1 y <volume label> If one were to accidently type all of that into FDISK, they deserve their data lost. There is no Initialize on the PC. There is formating. You can technically format a drive to about 80% and then cancel it and not have a problem, as the drive's FAT is not written until the end, at which point data is unrecoverable. > >> >> 3. Making erroneous comments about the use and meaning of /, \, >> and | in *nix, and DOS-Win environment. > > Its been years since I've dealt with / and \ in Dos I know one is > switch for Directory. > the other is a switch for "system" command. \ is not a switch for a directory. \ is the directory seperator. c: \winnt\system32. The \'s denote directories. / is a switch. most programs you can type %name% /? and get a list of switches. > >| in Unix is called (I believe) a pipe It's not called a pipe in unix. It's called a pipe everywhere. in the old Dos days, you'd do: type somefile.txt |more which would "Pipe" the output of the type command on somefile.txt into the more.com program, which displayed things one screenlength at a time -- ICQ: N/A (temporarily) AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
