Reply to post: Re: Guess back in the days when every byte counted

Take your pick: 0/1/* ... but beware – your click could tank an entire edition of a century-old newspaper

DavCrav

Re: Guess back in the days when every byte counted

"Bothering to have the program announce itself as "Windows Formatter" or whatever it was really called, was too much to ask or something..."

If you use the text editor 'ed', all error messages and confirmation messages are just '?'.

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