[geeks] DST hell

[Phil Stracchino]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
>> I had a corrupted patch file I was messing with yesterday on a Windows
>> box.  It was supposed to be about 6.5MB, but got truncated to 5.8K.
>> Windows wouldn't let me delete it, *even after rebooting*, because it
>> insisted there was a sharing violation.  What I eventually had to do was
>> reboot the machine in safe mode command prompt only, log in as
>> administrator, and navigate to it from the command line ... only then
>> could I successfully delete it.
> 
> One "feature" I'd like to see in the environments I use (OS X, Solaris, Linux, and Windows XP/2003/Vista) is "Open command line in this folder" - it seems trivial, but I've never seen it mentioned by anyone...

There's a "Command Prompt Here" power toy for Windows that does this.
If you can't find it on microsoft.com, I can make my copy available.

I don't quite understand why you'd need such a thing on Solaris or
Linux, which have a perfectly functional and usable CLI in the first place.


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 Phil Stracchino              phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
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