[geeks] DST hell

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
>Date: 2007/03/11 Sun PM 06:05:07 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] DST hell

>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.

Didn't know there was such a thing, I'm sure I can find it now that I know where to look - thanks!

>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.

For exactly the same reason I want one in Windows, actually.

Lionel