> Ted "old dog, still learning new tricks" Roche

Now Ted, you do know you need to rewrite that phrase like the experts with
underscores instead of spaces.  Otherwise these 32 bit Operating System just
won't know how to deal with the string:

old_dog,_still_learning_new_tricks

heh-heh...


Gil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Roche
> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:25 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [NF] Amazing Gmail Feature that could make your life easier
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Gil Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Very cool tip re: knowing who has been selling my email address to 3rd
> >  parties.  Thanks Mike!
> >
>
> Not to pick on you or Mike, but this is pretty much an original
> feature of the email system, encoded in the RFCs (If I needed a
> citation, I'd start at 822, replaced by 2822). "Those who fail to
> understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it." It was only with the
> introduction of a lot of not-very-compliant servers that this feature
> got lost and rediscovered.
>
> >  Just an aside for those who may be interested.  Mike is now in
> the last half
> >  of his first year in college, having examed out of high school
> at 17 and
> >  going straight to college to "leave the idiots & bullies in his dust."
>
> Way to go, Mike!
>
> > Well Michael popped his hand up and
> >  proceeded to show the teacher how to use a double-quote at
> both ends of a
> >  qualified "d:\Path Name\File Name.Ext" string to perform any valid DOS
> >  command.
>
> Actually, the terminating double-quote is optional if the filename
> with spaces is the last argument on the command line.
>
> --
> Ted "old dog, still learning new tricks" Roche
> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
> http://www.tedroche.com
>
>
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