df and floppy seeks [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-20041227-1]
Igor Pechtchanski
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Mon Feb 28 18:08:00 GMT 2005
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> >Sent: 28 February 2005 16:41
>
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:16:41PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Feb 28 14:20, Dave Korn wrote:
> >>> Or maybe they just thought they had to run it all the way to the end
> >>> in case you'd only put a very _small_ floppy in?
> >>
> >> I guess they want to make sure it really wakes up.
> >
> > What's all this about floppies? Why aren't you working on the highly
> > important diff utilities problem??????????
>
> I'm still waaaaay too busy trying to edit my registry with vi. It works
> just fine, so long as you make sure you only replace plain ascii by
> overwriting and don't change the lengths of any strings, honest!
"Vim" has a binary mode, you know...
Igor
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