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From: kjb@cs.vu.nl (Kees J. Bot)
Subject: Re: Making a bootable hard drive.
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 09:44:14 GMT
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cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose) writes:

>Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) wrote:

>: All my worries about 'part' being to weird for people to confronted with
>: so early in the installation resurface.  (I wrote it when I had nothing
>: better to do.  Only a few hundred lines of C should do it, I thought.
>: That's where I went wrong.)

>Surely you jest.  The (m)agic key in part is one of the few magic
>commands I've seen anywhere recently.  I seem to recall a reasonable
>help screen as well, tho' it's long time since I used it.

No jest.  Whatever I make I am always worried that what I find intuitive
may not be intuitive at all.  It is hard to get feedback, because
either it was indeed usable, so noone complains, or it is horrible to
understand and use, but people don't complain for fear of looking
stupid.  (An understandable fear, just look in any newsgroup.)

BTW, the original problem was not with 'part'.  The hard disk is not an
AT/IDE drive.
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	                        Kees J. Bot  (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
	              Systems Programmer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
