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From: elund@pro-graphics.cts.com (Eric Lund)
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Subject: Re: / as a dir delimiter
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Date: 13 Mar 90 07:56:13 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from larsen@mist.cs.orst.edu
> All in all, I was rather disappointed by this attitude.  Just complaining,
> and not testing out possibilities ("DO NOT DO IT!") is a rather backwards
> way of going about scientific research, don't you think?  No
> experimentation, no attempts, no success, no failure.  I would hate to
> think of what our science would be like today if Newton, Fermi, Bohr,
> Mendel, Edison, and Tesla never did any experiments.  Current limits,
> or problems can only show us the places that need improvement and more
> study.

After reviewing my message, I have concluded I was not as hopelessly backwards
as you think.  I objected to the tinkering of command.com, because it is an
extremely dangerous thing to do.  Having used unix, I have given though to the
"alternate delimiter" problem, and found the situation was more taxing than it
deserved.  By far, the simplest solution was to GET USED TO IT.  It wasn't
that hard -- just a matter of taste.  I hardly think your comparison to
scientific research and great discoverers is applicable.  DO NOT DO IT was a
warning from experience.  If you tamper with certain things, they will break. 
Often, when things break, they fall on other things and break them.  (IE, your
hard disk!)  Sorry for discouraging you.  I hope scientific research can live
with the devastating blow I gave it.

And if you do "research" 4DOS, could you please post your findings.  (In the
interest of science and progress, of course.)

Thank you.
                                                  
Eric W. Lund *DISCLAIMER "Disclaimers are for weak people."* Prodigy: xcbr22b
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