On Aug 28, 3:00*pm, s...@antinode.info (Steven M. Schweda) wrote:
> From:tadamsmar
>
> > Can you record DVDs or CDs using 7.2.1?
>
> * *Perhaps, but that may depend on what "7.2.1" is, and/or what it runs
> on, and/or what's connected to it how.
>
> * *Perhaps you could ask again, and include enough information for a
> non-psychic to provide a useful and reliable answer.

Digital Equipment Corporation's Open Virtual Memory System Version
7.2.1, which is now owned by Compaq.

Sorry, I am sure using that "7.2.1" shorthand could mean a dozen
different things when posted in the context of a newgroup named:
comp.os.vms.

On Sep 2, 10:46*am, tadamsmar wrote:
> On Aug 28, 3:00*pm, s...@antinode.info (Steven M. Schweda) wrote:
>
> > From:tadamsmar
>
> > > Can you record DVDs or CDs using 7.2.1?
>
> > * *Perhaps, but that may depend on what "7.2.1" is, and/or what it runs
> > on, and/or what's connected to it how.
>
> > * *Perhaps you could ask again, and include enough information for a
> > non-psychic to provide a useful and reliable answer.
>
> Digital Equipment Corporation's Open Virtual Memory System Version
> 7.2.1, which is now owned by Compaq.
>
> Sorry, I am sure using that "7.2.1" shorthand could mean a dozen
> different things when posted in the context of a newgroup named:
> comp.os.vms.

I should have said 7.2-1, I know that "." must have rendered my post
completely undecipherable to you.

tadamsmar wrote:
> On Aug 28, 3:00 pm, s...@antinode.info (Steven M. Schweda) wrote:
>> From:tadamsmar
>>
>>> Can you record DVDs or CDs using 7.2.1?
>> Perhaps, but that may depend on what "7.2.1" is, and/or what it runs
>> on, and/or what's connected to it how.
>>
>> Perhaps you could ask again, and include enough information for a
>> non-psychic to provide a useful and reliable answer.
>
> Digital Equipment Corporation's Open Virtual Memory System Version
> 7.2.1, which is now owned by Compaq.
>
> Sorry, I am sure using that "7.2.1" shorthand could mean a dozen
> different things when posted in the context of a newgroup named:
> comp.os.vms.


Well *I* assumed that "7.2.1" referred to a release of VMS but perhaps
others have an imagination more vivid than mine!

In article , tadamsmar writes:
>
> Digital Equipment Corporation's Open Virtual Memory System Version
> 7.2.1, which is now owned by Compaq.

Nope. There's no 7.2.1. And VMS is owned by HP. I still think
you mean 7.2-1.

tadamsmar wrote:
>
> On Sep 2, 10:46 am, tadamsmar wrote:
> > On Aug 28, 3:00 pm, s...@antinode.info (Steven M. Schweda) wrote:
> >
> > > From:tadamsmar
> >
> > > > Can you record DVDs or CDs using 7.2.1?
> >
> > > Perhaps, but that may depend on what "7.2.1" is, and/or what it runs
> > > on, and/or what's connected to it how.
> >
> > > Perhaps you could ask again, and include enough information for a
> > > non-psychic to provide a useful and reliable answer.
> >
> > Digital Equipment Corporation's Open Virtual Memory System Version
> > 7.2.1, which is now owned by Compaq.
> >
> > Sorry, I am sure using that "7.2.1" shorthand could mean a dozen
> > different things when posted in the context of a newgroup named:
> > comp.os.vms.
>
> I should have said 7.2-1, I know that "." must have rendered my post
> completely undecipherable to you.

Indeed. "7.2-1" is - more or less - "VMS-speak", while 7.2.1 could
pertain to just about anything else VMS-related (cdwrite, dvdwrite,
Apache, Perl, PGP, etc. ...).

D.J.D.

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article , tadamsmar writes:
>> Digital Equipment Corporation's Open Virtual Memory System Version
>> 7.2.1, which is now owned by Compaq.
>
> Nope. There's no 7.2.1. And VMS is owned by HP. I still think
> you mean 7.2-1.
>

Just beat it to death Bob!! I had no trouble figuring out what he meant!

In article , "Richard B. Gilbert" writes:
>
> Just beat it to death Bob!! I had no trouble figuring out what he meant!


Hey, it's a technical newgroup. Either 0 or 1.

On Sep 3, 8:51*am, koeh...@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article , "Richard B. Gilbert" writes:
>
>
>
> > Just beat it to death Bob!! *I had no trouble figuring out what he meant!
>
> * Hey, it's a technical newgroup. *Either 0 or 1.

Flatter yourself, if you want. But don't overlook the fact that no one
can give me a straightforward answer to my question. It's not
technical enough to do that. I am really not sure I know any more now
than before I ask the question.

Thanks for the reminders about dashes and dots.

Anyway, I guess my question is too arcane.