Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!feg
From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WARNING  Microsoft C V5.1 Setup  WARNING
Summary: Who needs your tirade?
Keywords: stupid careless write-protect backup shucks darn
Message-ID: <25982@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 May 88 13:58:17 GMT
References: <1455@slvblc.UUCP> <3401@tekgvs.TEK.COM> <882@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ
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In article <882@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>, del@Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg) writes:
> Look, I will probably get flamed for this, but what the heck.
> 
> >>[he blew away his Microsoft Installation diskettes by mistake]
> 
> This whole discussion and flaming at Microsoft is ridiculous! Anybody that
> fails to write protect ..................[deleted blah, blah, blah .... 
> 
You are right about deserving flames.  The poster agreed he was careless
and should have write protected and/or copied the original disks.  He was
only warning us other mortals against the tricky .bat file Microsoft
had included.  I am sure he didn't have preachers to the choir in mind.

When you feel the need for getting on a soapbox, do it off the net,please.

Forrest Gehrke