Lewin, at 19:35 on Aug 07 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

LE>> Suppose you were me. (I know, it's a scary thought).
BG> True, no argument with that at all.  :)

LE> You do realize that your sentence above sounds EXACTLY like something Rod 
LE> Speed would say, and that is a FAR scarier thought ?

To paraphrase something that you once said, "I would gladly top myself
if it would rid the world of Rod"...  :)

LE>> Suppose you had Norton Directory Sort in your machine.
BG> Under OS/2 HPFS?  Pretty bloody unlikely.

LE> Well, we were only supposing.

It did actually work here under OS/2 FAT, but not HPFS of course.

LE>> Suppose you didn't mind it bonking the brains out of your EAs.
BG> EAs?  What are they?  :)

LE> I expected you to say "what's bonking ?" ;-)

That's something you do with mail-order inflatable sheep, is it not?  :)

LE>> You would save your 8.3-filename documents thus :
BG> And what's an 8.3 filename?  Oh yeah, I vaguely remember DOS...

LE> Some of us still have to maintain backwards (and I /DO/ mean BACKWARDS) 
LE> compatibility with older, brain-dead applications.

Which is why some of us maintain a primary FAT DOS partition as well.  That
said though, mine goes all HPFS this weekend, as I've not had to boot
native DOS for over 6 months now, and the one app I have which doesn't
appear to like VDMs, runs a treat under an OS/2 VMB.

LE>> xyymmddz.aaa
BG> But these are files which you have created and named yourself, in which
BG> case any convention could reasonably apply.

LE> The point is, this convention makes sorting under FAT automagic.

Agreed.

LE>> Or maybe you're not a methodical person ? 
BG> Quite right too, I'm a C of E (or at least I used to be).  :)

LE> "No dear, you're a /LAPSED/ atheist".

No, I'm a full-on, card-carrying, paid-up atheist now. 

Regards, Bill
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