(This is probably not the right forum for this, but whatever.) On Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:22:03 +0200, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > I read "The command completed successfully." This seems to me > programmer-speak, and verbose. Why not simplify that to "The command > succeeded."?
Because it might be a lengthy procedure, and it might run to completion without succeeding. Something like formatting a disk might not complete (eg hardware error) or it might complete unsuccessfully (disk is not usable). /Tomas _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
