Posted by Hammerer on 01/19/47 11:28

"Boudewijn Dijkstra" <usenet@bdijkstra.tmfweb.nl> wrote in message
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> "Hammerer" <hammerer@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
> news:4335a041$1_3@x-privat.org...
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> > "George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:8rgZe.2105$7b6.918@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
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> >> And I'm replying to your post just to confirm that
> >> by slightly adapting the so-called hosts file,
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> > Oh no, George. It really *is* called the 'hosts' file.
> > Nothing "so-called" about it.
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> Oh no Hammerer. It is so-called simply because we call it so.
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I get the picture now, Bouje . . . . Boudawan . . . . Bijoma . . . . BD. Its
real names are (1) "simply", and (2) "so". I've got it now. Thanks!
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> It doesn't matter what it really *is* called,
> because that is also how we call it.
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Understood, Budiji . . . . Bajauin . . . . Bjawan . . . . BD. It's great -
isn't it - how Windows naming conventions can get so confusing? Have you
ever read Douglas Hofstadter's 'Le Ton beau de Marot'? Tells it like it is,
that does.

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