Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!uniol!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: <4250@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 9 Mar 91 02:50:21 GMT References: <91.056.16:01:18@ira.uka.de> <672@newave.UUCP> <1991Feb28.015446.16531@eng.ufl.edu> <97235@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <680@newave.UUCP> <4122@stl.stc.co.uk> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 30 dswt@stl.stc.co.uk (D.S.W.Tansley) writes: >Here's a fact I was stung by only yesterday, whilst (stupidly) venturing >into the braindead world of PCs: you can't simply rename directories. >UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! >Not only can you not simply 'rename' (or whatever) an exsiting directory >in DOS, but WINDOWS 3.0 ALSO DOES NOT HIDE THIS STUPID LIMITATION!!! Of course, both is wrong. You CAN rename a directory in DOS. The brain dead standard shell of DOS (command.com) has this limitation. The DOS function call - and every program using it - does not have such a limitation. All decent shells - both visual shells and command.com replacements like 4dos - don't have this limitation. The don't have to hide anything, they simply don't have to reimplement this misfeature of command.com. The File Manager of Windows 3 does exactly what one would expect: you point at a directory, select "rename" and type another name. Thats it. Would you care to explain what caused your posting? >Am I so naive a Mac user as to want to simply rename a folder (sorry, >directory)? Let alone have a decent number/type of characters in the name... Sure. I like OS/2 because of that. It allows 255 character per name ... Wolfgang Strobl #include