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Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:52:05 -0800
Hello Oliver Sturm, On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 02:46:42 +0100 GMT your local time, which was Friday, December 24, 1999, 8:46:42 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Oliver Sturm wrote: Oliver> Hi Roel, Oliver> On Freitag, 24. Dezember 1999 at 2:08:18 you wrote: R>>>> if you want to use windows-variables, you should use them like this: R>>>> %windowsdir% OS>>> Nice to know that works ;) Anyway, of course I didn't put OS>>> "<windowsdir>" in there, but actually "d:\winnt". I just didn't want OS>>> to confuse anybody ;) R>> I've seen stranger things being typed before... if you would have actually R>> typed '<windowsdir>' it wouldn't have surprised me... :-) Oliver> That's alright ;) I've seen things like that, too, while working as a Oliver> trainer for a consulting company. There's a funny story that's Oliver> crossing my mind... maybe not everyone knows that trick: Oliver> Someone complained to a coleague of mine he couldn't use any of the Oliver> icons on his desktop. My coleague tried to figure it out (that was on Oliver> a Windows NT course ;), but it wasn't possible to click on any icon. Oliver> He rebooted, tried everything. Then he found it out: Some other guy Oliver> had taken a screenshot of the empty desktop, switched to a higher Oliver> resolution, moved all the icons away from the usual desktop space, Oliver> reestablished the old resolution and put in the screenshot as the Oliver> desktop bsckground picture. Good idea to frighten you younger sister Oliver> ;) I used a similar trick for many years even in the green tube displays to 1. not being auto logged off from my mainframes/minis when visiting a user, and 2. to prevent them messing with my machine while I wasnt at it. it was running and nobody could acess my system unless they knew how to and the users in those days didnt have a clue. Oliver> Thanks for your testing, also to Ali. Oliver> Oliver Sturm Oliver> -- Oliver> Oliver Sturm / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oliver> Key ID: 71D86996 Oliver> Fingerprint: 8085 5C52 60B8 EFBD DAD0 78B8 CE7F 38D7 71D8 6996 Best regards, tracer Using theBAT 1.38e mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -------------------------------------------------------------- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------