Re: only can open 25 files ?
sephiroth _,
Means that this how-many-files-can-I-open question is one of the grey areas
in DOS/Windows that, justifiedly or not, tends to spook people away.
I am not a Microsoft hater, far from it. MS has given us many useful and
efficient tools, and working environments like Windows and MSOffice are far
more friendly/productive/efficient than any their competitors have produced,
with few exceptions.
But Microsoft insists in some basic mistakes -at least that's what they are,
IMHO- like withdrawing or hiding elementary information that may turn out to
be vital to both users and developers. Why they do it is immaterial to me;
the fact remains that Windows docs and help files usually omit a lot of
basic info, and other OS's -like Linux- certainly don't.
I'd rather be told the truth, every time, even if it's a truth I don't like.
I won't uninstall Windows just because it can't open more than 25 files, or
250, or 10, just like I won't dump my car because it isn't a Ferrari. But my
car's manual states clearly every spec I might possibly want to know, and
Windows doesn't.
So, people are turning to Linux (and other OSs), not because it's
necessarily better, but in part because it tells you exactly what you can
and can't do, even if you have to wade through dozns of how-tos and faqs.
And the same goes for commercial Windows apps, most of which inherit the MS
shut-up-and-keep-your-fingers-off-the-keyboard attitude.
A few days ago I saw my nephew install AutoCad R14 for Windows. Without
telling anybody or asking for agreement, not a word in any readme or
anything, it associated the .scr extension (which AutoCad gives to scripts)
with Notepad. So, no more clicking on Explorer to test screensavers. OK, no
sweat, nobody's perfect. After all, I'm no newbie, so -since AutoCad offered
no solution- all I had to do was to reassociate .scr with .. with what?
Where does it say in the Windows documentation which is the program, dll or
whatever that runs screensavers? There isn't any screensaver.exe, you know.
That's what I meant. Sorry I didn't make myself clear.
Gerardo
----- Original Message -----
From: "sephiroth _" <euman2376 at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: RE: only can open 25 files ?
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> what's that supposed to mean?
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> Gerardo wrote:
> > Or switch to Linux, you mean?
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