Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Jimmy Montague]

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 21:13 +0100, norman wrote:
> I have come into this after the discussion has been going on for quite a
> long time. As I understand it a GUI approach to the use of floppies is
> being asked for which, in my opinion, is very reasonable. I seem to
> remember that the first version of Ubuntu had, under accessories, a menu
> for formatting floppies. I was prepared to put up with that and to use
> the icon on the desktop when a floppie was put into the drive. Somewhere
> in the development of Ubuntu the facility to format floppies got lost
> and I have always regretted that.
> 
> Norman
> 

Thank you, Norman. You are right -- as long as there's one floppy drive
in use (in the Third World, there must be many such), the power to
format floppies should be available to Ubuntu users through the GUI.

Thanks to you for your intelligence and your perception and thanks to
Zack Powers, who showed me how to solve my problem.

Jimmy

For the rest of you -- You know who you are -- I call to your attention
the fact that you've just been shown up and outclassed. It happens to
the best of us once in a while. It must happen to you guys more
often. . . .

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