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tph@longhorn.uucp (Tom Harrington) wrote:
>Data hardware, but it's been a few years.  Anyway, once the hard drive 
>filled up, most common commands became disabled, giving "disk full" 
>errors.  When this happened, you couldn't do *anything* with the
>system until you removed a few files.  Including, as it happened, 
>deleting files.  So you'd get an error message saying something like 
>"Cannot delete file.  Disk full."  At which point the mind would 

And Windows'95 still has the same "feature" - at least if you don't
set it to delete files completely rather than move them to the recycle
bin.

Try deleting a large file (say a 50MB animation) from a disk with only
a few hundred KB free - you'll get the same error message!

Or try starting Word's (or any MS applications) setup program and ask
it to remove some components - the first thing it says is "Checking
for necessary disk space"...


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