Re: Windows could not upgrade the file..........Security update KB

From: Sky King (skyking_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:13:38 -0600

Robert Aldwinckle wrote:
>> He would be entering those commands from a Millennium Startup
>> diskette boot environment, Robert. ...

>
> How backward! ;o Even Win95 had an Edit command in the DOS
> window

That's just it. This isn't a DOS window. It is DOS, just DOS, and nothing
but the DOS. {How soon they forget. <VBG>}

> I guess booted DOS mode didn't have that though...

Correct. There are certainly ways to accomplish the basics of what you
suggested, just not in the steps you listed.

> So, was it a missing space?

Dunno.

> It amazes me how often users misunderstand syntax and overlook single
> spaces.

I won't make that accusation against Steve at this point, and actually find
it ugly that you would publicly. There are several reasons why Steve could
have gotten the "bad command or filename" error.

> That's why I almost always insert at least two spaces where only one would
> be required in my examples, for clarity.

Then your examples to users would be wrong.

Anyway. Not sure how we got into a discussion of how much
wiser/better/smarter you are than Joe/Jane User, but find the whole concept
repulsive.

FWIW, I will not criticize Steve (or other users here) because instructions
I posted may have been incomplete or unclear. And certainly not because I
think I sit in a higher chair looking down upon them (as your post indicates
you do), because I don't. This is a peer-to-peer newsgroup, and thus by
definition we are all equal. While it is true that some of us may have had
more experiences working on computers than others, that does not change the
basic concept: equals.

So I consider Steve an equal in this exchange of newsgroups posts, as I do
all others here. It both saddens and bothers me that apparently you don't
feel the same way. 

-- 
...Sky
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