"Imemine" wrote in message
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Cracks me up... You don't trust Microsoft, but you're perfectly willing
to
go out there anywhere, on anybody's say so, and download an ME version of
FDISK (which also happens to be an EXE.)

The um, er, 'anybodys say so' was 1)due to link given , and 2)the
'say-so' was from microsoft
themselves.

Where, in all the link, does it suggest downloading (or even obtaining in
any manner) an ME disk to copy FDISK from. In fact, where does it say to do
that at all.

Do you not see the absurdity in
this train of thought?

Do you see how much simpler it would be to simply offer the updated
Fdisk as simply that,,,,,,,
an updated version of Fdisk.

Because there's more to it than that, and if you'd bothered to do as I
suggested and looked into the contents of the update, yoyu'd know that.
FDISK gets installed as a Windows component, THEN you can copy it to a
matching floppy Startup disk. Might not make sense to you, or for your
purposes, but in the overall scheme of things, MS did what they did in order
to cover all the bases.

I have hummed and harrred about the whole thing, and I still fail
to see why an .exe is needed to supply one measly file,,,, hang on sec,
I'll quickly go to the
folder Fdisk is in and check its size....... Am back, it is a mere
62.9Kb,,,, surely not
something a programmer would need to write an .exe for?? or is it?

Answered above. But you still crack me up. Now it's just a matter of size?
Becasue in both cases you're talking about downloading an running an EXE.
Pray tell, what's the safety difference between the two?

I am confused Gary,,,,, as noone would be interested in an updated
Fdisk, unless, they require
to use it on a computer that has a larger than 64gig hdd,,,, so why
the in gods name would they
not simply supply it as a file;; it would make life so much simpler
for ppl, dont you agree?\

I've already explained that no, I do not agree. You're sticking to a silly
and self-centered idea. Sorry, but life doesn't work that way, especially
not in the computer world.

Perhaps I have wandered off a bit, perhaps you have too,,,,, so, with
that thought in mind, could
you describe exactly what happens when the .exe is clicked on? Is it
searching searching
searching...... and just what does it do to the Fdisk file after it has
done its 'searching'. ?
I am picturing it simply updating the hard-drive limit and etc; or is it
doing more?

No, I am not going to go any farther in explaining it to you. If you're so
certain about your ideas on how computers and computer manufacturers should
behave, you should be able to figure all that out on your own. I've already
given you huge nits on how that is done. In both this, but especially in
another thread in another group, you basically bash MS, and say a bunch of
other things that are like what you say he Incorrect information and/or
correct info badly understood. (This is what caused me to initially think
you might be Dan.) You'll note that in that other thread, your writings were
even called paranoid by someone else.

Safe computing is what ms groups advocate,, safe computing and asking
questions is a trait of a
good computer user.

And Safe Computing is what most of us here are interested in. Which is why
we gave you the suggestion(s) we did. But if you're going to argue like this
every time, I will ignore you. Simply put,
you need a lot of education, and I get real tired, real quick, of explaining
things more than once. In fact, you're damned lucky I answered this post at
all. When I take the time to explain to you how to look inside the file and
read the contents, so that you'll maybe understand these things a little bit
better, you apparently ignored me and simply started out on another rant.
Perhaps you can see how that would **** me off.

This is now getting long winded,, but unless there is something
ridiculous happening behind the
scenes to getting one simple file, then I just dont understand the logic.

I know, but that's not my fault. Nor is it Franc's. Nor is it Microsoft's.
The logic is there, I showed you how to find it, and that's the best we can
do.

Thanks for input from the beginning.......
(ps,,,,,,, I still cannot see any other poster in this thread,,,
maybe ms could address that
too.)

Franc's was posted on 5/19 at 8:52 pm GMT, and while the MS server has had
some problems, I don't think this is one of them. The problem is more likely
on your end, since you don't directly access Microsoft's server, but rather
a different server, perhaps your ISP's? Set up to access MS servers
directly. Click he

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ic.win98.setup

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com