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|    Roy Witt to Ed Vance    |
|    Foxit Reader Tip    |
|    13 Mar 14 19:47:43    |
       Brer Ed Vance wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Foxit Reader Tip:               EV>> Another thing I may do to figure out what the PRG was for is Open        EV>> the directory the file is in using Windows Explorer and Sort it by        EV>> Date/Time to see if I saved a Screen shot of it when I was at the        EV>> web site I downloaded the PRG from.               RW>> Wouldn't it be easier to extract the FILE.DIZ and keep that        RW>> with the program in a folder? Then you can read that file with        RW>> an ASCII reader and not have to worry about what it is.               EV> Thanks, I hadn't thought of that.               EV> The PRGs I were talking about weren't in the "Program Files"        EV> directory but in another directory among several hundreds of files        EV> with extensions like, .JPG, .PDF, .EXE, .ZIP, .MSI, etc., etc., etc.               EV> I myself don't like bunches and bunches of little sub-directories in        EV> the directory off of C:\ I keep files in.              I do. I create folders with a name that suggests what the content is.       Undeer that, I create sub-folders that house the various programs, and all       of those you listed above. i.e. One such folder here is named; My Cars.              Under that folder is the name of every make that I've ever owned with JPGs       and files in which there are descriptions of them. And so on.              ---My Cars --¿        Chevy        |--------56 Chevy        |--------64 El Camino        |--------Camaro (has sub folders of each model I've owned)        |--------72 Cheyenne Pickup        |--------65 Malibu SS        |--------95 Camaro crash of 2001        |--------02 Silverado        |--------79 Malibu        |--------Vega        GMC        |--------GMC-Isuzu        |--------Suburban        Hudson        |       Etc...                      EV> I still wonder if XP's NTFS has the limitation in the Root Directory        EV> that DOS has of just 512 entries Maximum.              8^) No...For each XP update that MS has sent to me, there is a directory       dedicated to that specific update.               EV> I learned about sub-directories not having that limit a little bit b4        EV> I had the 486 built for me, and I used that feature from the git-go.               EV> In one of the dirs I save downloads in there are over 1000 files and        EV> I can't see them all using Buerg's LIST.COM PRG.              Running Windows? Find a program called ZTreeWin v1.41...I've used this       program when it was called XTree from DOS 3.3 thru DOS 6.2...then found       out that it had a Windows version and aquired that...DOS 3.3 came with my       first 286 PC, c1986...                      R\%/itt - K5RXT              "It is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and        if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."        Bram Stoker (1847-1912)               Thus, we have "Climate Change Science" - which isn't capable of        explaining anything.                     --- GoldED+/W32 1.1.5-31012       --- D'Bridge 3.98        * Origin: South-Texas Area Hub - Gulf Coast Backbone (1:387/22)    |
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