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Re: Why?



Reply to note from yesss@xxxxxxxx Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:31:33 -0500
(EST)

-> Can we please have a little truth in advertising around here?

No false advertising anywhere near here. I still have Xy3 on my
disk, and I still load it from time to time -- usually to craft
solutions for Xy3 users who've never gone anywhere near XyWWWeb and
probably never will. Fact is, I can't get 3 to list the files in my
main working directory. You don't care whether the DIR command
works? I do; and I think others do, too. My v3 .HLP file was last
revised, let's see, on 3/22/2000 (not 10 years ago), and I regularly
experience out-of-mem instability while editing that 234K file.
That's in a very up-to-date DOS session that has, at startup (I
quote MEM output here):

  650240 bytes total memory
  650240 bytes available for DOS
  620592 largest executable program size

Granted, the problems typically arise with several other files open,
but who needs to waste energy wondering when (not if) it's going to
happen? That's what I was suggesting by "sweaty palms and shallow
breathing", and, by the way, I was being jocular.

As for all that crap about "bashing" and "scorn" and "constantly
[being] put on the defensive", nobody buys it, Annie, least of all
you, and repeating it at regular intervals doesn't make it any more
persuasive. The juvenile antics are all yours, and they are indeed
a colossal waste of time.

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx
http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/