Eero Ahonen wrote:
> You're slowly getting enough Linux -oriented to get Windows jamming as 
> others of us have gotten for years ;).

Well, this is the first time I've tried to do something really 
system-level in Windows. And I no longer have a working C compiler 
installed under Windows (using all interpreters/VMs), so I can't put in 
the exact calls I need.

MS doesn't exactly make the baroque stuff easy to find on their web 
site, either - especially when they're trying to push you to use the new 
stuff. :-)

I've always had minor annoyances with Windows, and never said Linux was 
bad as such. Never disputed that. They're just *different* annoyances 
than with Linux. :-)

It's like arguing over whether compiled or interpreted code is "better". 
Meaningless unless you talk about specific situations.

>> I guess something had the drive locked or some such, and I wasn't 
>> getting back particularly informative error messages?
> 
> Actually, that's probably a lot better reason.

Except it didn't work when booting off a liveCD, so I can't imagine 
what's locking drives at that level.

>> Oh well, I guess I'll see if it works where I really want it to work.
> 
> Note that if it's about locking oslt, you can't be sure that it'll work 
> always when needed :(.

It would probably work reliably if I actually had a compiler so I could 
make the right calls. :-)  It's not enough of a hassle yet to actually 
find and download a free windows compiler. Yet.

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