BOUNCE xywrite@xxxxxxxx: Admin request (fwd)

[nsivin@xxxxxxxx (Nathan Sivin)]

Another "he*p" taboo violation (this will let you see how they look
when I get the bounce message):

owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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>Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 11:25:00
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>From: Lee Hickling 
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>At 07:37 AM 6/6/97 -0700, Jack Shafer wrote, in part:
>
>>I don't have NU Directory Sort. Is there a way to do it inside XyWrite
>>without the help of a utility?
>
>Get Norton, Jack. You'll be glad you did.
>
>I bought a used copy of Norton Utilities 7.0 because ver 2.0, which I had
>used for eight or nine years, no longer worked after I installed DOS 6.22.
>A week or two later I formatted the wrong diskette. Norton recovered all
>the data.
>
>I also like the Disk Duplicate function. It does the equivalent of DOS's
>Diskcopy and Diskcomp in one pass, and will make a bunch of copies at one
>time without repeating the whole string of commands.
>
>NU 8.0 is better for Windows, I understand. I have to exit Win3.1 to use
>some of 7.0's functions, but that's no hardship because I'm a stone,
>stubborn DOS Dinosaur and run by far more DOS programs than Windows ones
>(about 9-2) when I'm working and not playing with the computer.
>
>Norton and XTree are two programs I couldn't live without. For file
>management the XTree Gold version 3.0 for DOS is the best thing ever made.
>XTG 4.0 for Windows has a couple of advantages -- it can look at graphics
>files, and it makes access to Clipboard a lot easier -- but its graphic
>interface is a real pain. Almost as clunky and irritating as Windows File
>Manager.
>
>End of irrelevant grumbling and pontification. For today, at least.
>
>
>Lee Hickling       
>



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Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-3325
(nsivin@xxxxxxxx)