Bob Breed wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 BB> 700 files!  :)  Never a problem here back in my DOS days.  :)

 RJT> Much of that was archived messages.  :-)

 BB> Ahh, got ya. :)   I never archieved all that many - just the funny
 BB> ones. :)

That was some of it.  Stuff written _to_ me,  stuff I wrote,  certain
threads that caught my interest,  etc. 

 RJT> I have yet to get going on that process,  though I'm a bit closer to it
 RJT> now than I was,  this past week.

 BB> Only way to go, the blanks are so cheap and hold so much they offer
 BB> a attractive storage device to me.

 BB> Course now you hear the arguments that they don't last that long -
 BB> window seems to be from about 3 years up to whatever. :)

Yeah,  I'm not real thrilled about that,  figuring as how I want to archive
some of this stuff for longish periods of time.  I guess lots of copies of
stuff spread out here and there among a number of machines is probably the
best bet.

 RJT> Different tools for different jobs.  I find GUIs appropriate for some
 RJT> things, but not all that much.

 BB> I think the Lx world finally came to the table with them as well.
 BB> But the nice thing about Lx is you can do as you wish; want to use
 BB> command lines - do it!  Want to use a GUI, then load KDE or Gnome
 BB> - and probably some others out there as well?

 RJT> Sure.  There are a lot of window managers out there,  some of which are
 RJT> considerably less resource-intensive than either KDE or Gnome.

 BB> Only two I looked at were KDE and Gnome - both very win like.  :) 

Sure.  But I do both,  got KDE up on one console,  and textmode stuff in others...

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