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   Message 12,167 of 13,597   
   mark lewis to Ed Vance   
   OS/2   
   05 Jul 15 10:58:24   
   
   04 Jul 15 19:30, you wrote to Holger Granholm:   
      
    EV> I learned one thing about OS/2 while looking through the .ZIP files I   
    EV> downloaded.   
      
    EV> OS/2 .INF files need the OS/2 Viewer to see what is in them.   
      
   actually, just a proper INF viewer is needed... i think i have one here that   
   can be used on linux, mac and winwhatever ;)   
      
    EV> Microsoft .INF files are ASCII files.   
      
   right... that's because on winwhatever, they call them "drivers" and they   
   never have been... all they've ever been is settings for the product to be   
   imported into the registry...   
      
    EV> I'm not putting OS/2 down, just saying what difference I saw.   
      
   there's only so many three character extensions to go around ;)   
      
    EV> There isn't anything wrong with OS/2, lots of people use it. Several   
    EV> people use it that read this echo.   
      
    EV> In the OS2WORLD.BBS file I looked for Your BBS but didn't see it.   
    EV> The OS2WORLD.BBS file I looked at was dated 07Sept1992.   
      
    EV> You may not have had the BBS up then.   
      
   mine isn't listed because it is not running an OS/2 native BBS package... my   
   BBS is, and always has been, DOS based but that may be changing at some point   
   in the future as much as i loath the idea... either that or it will become   
   linux based or possibly hosted on a linux system...   
      
    EV> At least I thought to look to see if Your BBS or Name was in the file.   
    EV> Mark's, Waldo's Place BBS wasn't in that old BBS list either.   
      
   you're a good man, charlie brown :)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... URA Redneck if you dress up the kids to go to Wal-Mart.   
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