Re: ANN: MZ-Tools 3.0 now provides setups


k, I can't resit - here's mine.

Also, back in the days when DOS was king and Windows was just
a screen of files, I had this friend that worked in maintenance. He
knew that I usually brought along a snack (ie Twinkies) and he
would hide them from me at times, so I decided to get back at
him. I did a chkdsk on his Cdrive and jotted down all the data
down down.

I then went to my desk, and made a small assembly language
program that would display the exact sequence of text as
though the disk was being formatted, like:

C>format c:

Are you sure you want to format xyz? Y

Formatting ....

Disk has been formatted

All disk info here

C>

When he saw this his face lost all expression. I feared that he
might have a cardiac arrest so I told him to type something in.
As soon as he pressed a key the program displayed the message
"Gottcha!" (or something to that effect).

Just seeing his expression was "priceless!". <eg>

Saga


"Kevin Provance" <casey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ekDculqnFHA.3036@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Bwahahahaha.
>
> Back in day I modified the DOS 6.2 setup script to display some not so
> friendly messages during install. One co-worked got so upset by it
> that he left early for fear that he had actually done what was being
> displayed (when in reality it was just installing DOS) and was fearing
> he was going to get in some kind of trouble. <eg>
>
> I miss those days.
>
> - Kev
>
>
> "YYZ" <matt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1123774197.069581.102810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> fwiw, on every PC I work on, I setup an association to Regsvr32 so
>>> when I
>>> double-click on a dll/ocx, it gets registered.
>>
>> Yup -- I've got a .reg file that I have on my gmail account so I can
>> get it from anywhere and run the sucker. I passed it around to all
>> the
>> programmers in the office -- not one of them noticed until later on
>> that the context menu says "Register DLL -- Matt is the King" until
>> they had merged it. And they don't know how to change it.
>>
>> Ahhh, fun with co-workers.
>>
>>> which is a bit funny since, if you're afraid of the registry, you
>>> have no
>>
>> I agree. They won't touch it. In their defense, though, I
>> personally
>> managed to trash my registry and make my machine unbootable 2 times
>> in
>> a week, but that was a long time ago. Unfortunately, the tech guys
>> still have a homemade plaque up that says "It has been _223_ days
>> since
>> Matt's last computer mishap"
>>
>> Turnabout is fair play.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>
>


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