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Makes me think of a story i ran into somewhere about a secretary that had sorted all the files on her office PC in different folders alphabetically. This was b

Makes me think of a story i ran into somewhere about a secretary that had sorted all the files on her office PC in different folders alphabetically. This was back during the DOS days, and i suspect it was only discovered when she complained that it would no longer start in the morning. It may well be that said joker had the best of intentions by sorting the keys in the numerical order...

roryisok 9y ago
I've read this seven times now and I just can't understand it. Can you elaborate?
- detaro 9y ago
  I assume it means that they neatly filed COMMAND.COM in folder "C", and AUTOEXEC.BAT in "A", ... No filesystem permissions or file locking to prevent you from ruining your system in DOS.
  - JdeBP 9y ago
    But judicious use of ATTRIB +H +S did help ameliorate such things somewhat.