Re: [Freedos-user] Command succeeded

2021-06-02 Thread Tomas By
On Thu, 03 Jun 2021 01:44:01 +0200, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > "The command didn't complete.", or "The command hung.". No, hang means stop in the middle, so typically it would not then complete. > "or it might complete unsuccessfully (disk is not usable)." > "The command failed." Well, you can sa

Re: [Freedos-user] Command succeeded

2021-06-02 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 7:45 PM Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > > > Something like formatting a disk might not complete (eg hardware > > error) > "The command didn't complete.", or "The command hung.". > > "or it might complete unsuccessfully (disk is not usable)." > "The command failed." If the command

Re: [Freedos-user] Command succeeded

2021-06-02 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
Tomas: Something like formatting a disk might not complete (eg hardware error) "The command didn't complete.", or "The command hung.". "or it might complete unsuccessfully (disk is not usable)." "The command failed." -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ ___

Re: [Freedos-user] Command succeeded

2021-06-02 Thread Tomas By
(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 le

[Freedos-user] Command succeeded

2021-06-02 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
I read "The command completed successfully." This seems to me programmer-speak, and verbose. Why not simplify that to "The command succeeded."? -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https