XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 01.02.2025 17:29, Kenny McCormack wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Janis Papanagnou   wrote:   
   > ...   
   >> (I probably shouldn't engage in this thread - and not only because it   
   >> got aggressive recently - because it seems (partly?) a Windows issue,   
   >> given the mention of 'C:', 'D:' and such crap later in this thread;   
   >> but I'm curious...)   
   >   
   > Calling drive letters "crap" isn't "aggressive" ?   
      
   I wouldn't think so, but maybe we have a different view on that. What I   
   meant and was addressing was the _ad hominem_ aggressivity. (It wouldn't   
   have occurred to me that calling a technical mis-design "crap" would be   
   considered aggressive.) I think that personal "Die fucking troll, Die."   
   [from "Quincy the fifth"] is something vastly different than "Feature   
   C: D: is crap."   
      
   >   
   > Anyway, given that this is a cross-posted thread, it would be useful to   
   > know from which group you are reading/responding.  I often give this info   
   > myself when responding to cross-posts.   
   >   
   > My guess it that, like me, you are reading in comp.editors.  The point of   
   > this observation is that this thread (whatever it does eventually turn out   
   > to really be about) is really more of an Android/Windows thing, and is only   
   > tangentially related to editors.  If you're coming from a primarily Unix   
   > (aka, Linux) background, a lot of it will look weird.  I don't understand   
   > it myself, but I am inferring (just from reading this thread) that there   
   > are weirdnesses in both Android and Windows that give rise to the issues   
   > that Arlen is trying to address.   
   >   
   > Neither you nor I are familiar with these weirdnesses and problems, because   
   > we both come primarily from Unix/Linux backgrounds - where such things   
   > simply don't exist.   
      
   Well, I worked in the past also in DOS and Windows environments. And I   
   seem to recall that there were some sorts/variant of "links" available   
   (but I might be misremembering). And Android is a Linux (Unix) based OS   
   so I'd expect that such primitive and basic mechanisms are nor removed   
   from this OS. But I don't know; so if it's not applicable readers may   
   just dismiss my hint.   
      
   Janis   
      
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