Re: Pipe dreams

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to note from xywrite@xxxxxxxx Wed, 11 Nov 98 20:19:34 -0500

> those who use M$ OSes face a very possible if not
> likely erosion in support for DOS boxes and applications

There's a solution -- and you know what it is!

> it's going to be
> difficult for me to use it if the timestamps on the files are munged,
> or if I can't get a directory listing within Xywrite which has the most
> recent files at the top

"Munged" means what? v. "to mung"? IMO, if the OS is Y2K compliant, then the
files will be properly timestamped, because the OS is doing the filing, not Xy (I
don't believe that modern OSes allow Xy's internal DOS command processor to perform
this ring 0 function -- it would be a pretty gross violation of protocol -- but
I'm not certain either).

To the extent that there are glitches, I think most of them will be
XPL-overcomeable.


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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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