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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Thumb-drive format
Date: 23 Jul 2014 22:43:51 GMT
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On 2014-07-23, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> In article <c3ap1tFanbjU1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-07-23, John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:39:34 -0400, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>the fact that you have to install a third party hack for the ability to
>> >>write ntfs confirms what i said.
>> >>
>> >>and it really is just a hack since the ntfs format is proprietary and
>> >>had to be reverse engineered, which means it may not have 100%
>> >>compatibility, something that can be a very serious problem.
>> >
>> >  Okay. You know best. I'm wrong. I'm *always* wrong. You are *always*
>> > right. 
>> >  This was a fine discussion but you win.
>> >  Your prize is my continued absence.
>
>> Get used to it. He never admits he is wrong about anything. He'll argue
>> about minutia until the end of time or until you get bored with him and
>> leave the discussion (which he will naturally count as some sort of
>> private victory for himself) before he lets that happen.
>
> Is he wrong about ntfs then?

Which part? The part where he seems to lead one to believe it's not
brain-dead easy and reliable in practice to drag and drop files to NTFS
volumes in Mac OS X? Anyone who has bothered to use such software with
Mac OS X knows that it's exactly that. Or were you talking about some
other aspect of it?

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