"Howard" <alicebt@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bhdh39$bnu@dispatch.concentric.net>...[color=blue]
> "Tommy McDaniel" <tdmj@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c0fba064.0308121710.1a9db7d2@posting.google.c om...[color=green]
> > "Howard" <alicebt@hotmail.com> wrote in message[/color]
> news:<bhblce$bja@dispatch.concentric.net>...[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > "Tony" <antkov@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:4c1f7ba2.0308121046.ef99f61@posting.google.co m...
> > > > Hi there,
> > > >
> > > > Is there any event you can catch that would you allow to cancel the
> > > > deletion of a file or directory. The FileSystemEventHandler allows you
> > > > to catch file operations after they have occurred but I need to be
> > > > able to catch it before it occurs. Does anyone know a way of doing
> > > > this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi Tony,
> > >
> > > please ignore the response by Tommy McDaniel...it was as rude as they[/color][/color]
> get.[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > (Also, please ignore the rants of "perseus", who apparently has the day[/color][/color]
> off[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > from junior high and nothing better to do.) But to get a good answer to
> > > your question, you'll need to post it to a microsoft-specific newsgroup.
> > > Check the news.microsoft.com news server for available .NET[/color][/color]
> groups...there[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > are plenty. (By the way, if you are not in control of the deletions in[/color][/color]
> the[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > first place, my guess is that you won't be able to intercept them until[/color][/color]
> they[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > happen....but as I said it's just my guess.)
> > >
> > > -Howard[/color]
> >
> > No claim was made that it was not rude. Nevertheless, telling someone
> > to ignore everyone else so that you can say basically the same thing
> > but in a much more long-winded manner is just brilliant. I'm all for
> > being polite, but there's a point (like, oh, say, when half the
> > fricking page for the newsgroup as displayed by Google Groups is taken
> > up by people talking about all kinds of crap that bear no importance
> > whatsoever to the topic of the stinking newsgroup) where one starts to
> > lose patience over .Net questions in a Standard C++ newsgroup.
> >
> > Tommy McDaniel[/color]
>
> My, my...a little touchy, aren't we! Let me guess...you've been reading
> that crap from perseus? :-)[/color]
Not really, although I've seen all the threads. Time is too scarce a
resource to waste your time on crap like that.
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> You replied with profanity, and no explanation at all.[/color]
Uh, unless "crap" is now profanity, you're just making stuff up. And I
did explain that comp.lang.c++ wasn't the group for your .Net needs,
whether you like how I expressed it or not.
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> And your response only makes sense if the OP knows (in advance) that his topic
> was, well, off-topic.[/color]
The fact that this is comp.lang.c++ and not comp.lang..net should have
alerted him to the fact that he was off-topic.
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> Despite what many say here, newbies in general have no idea that there even
> *is* an FAQ page until they are told so.[/color]
You don't need the FAQ to read the sign that says comp.lang.c++.
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> If I walked into a hardware store and asked where the milk was, and you
> responded by asking "what in the crap milk has to do with hardware", you'd be
> looking for a fight, or at least a well-aimed finger.[/color]
And yet, if half of everybody that came through my hardware store was
asking for milk, you'd not only probably get a response similar to the
one you just mentioned, but I might not care too much about the
consequences either.
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> You *might* consider giving newbies a break, once at least, and either being
> polite in your response or ignoring their post altogether.[/color]
As I usually am, those times that I don't ignore them, which I almost
always do. I already explained to you the cause for my attitude in
this instance, although I must admit that I'm getting just about sick
of all the .Net questions here.
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> There is absolutely NO reason to snap his head off like that.[/color]
Sure there was, just not necessarily the best one in your opinion.
Until robots start visiting newsgroups, you're going to have to deal
with humans and their limited patience.
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> (At least not until they start acting like our dear friend perseus.)[/color]
Hmm, getting people's private information is easy these days, just cry
"copyright violation," no proof needed or anything. I'm all for
forming a comp.lang.c++ mob, going to his house, and beating him with
a stick in his own yard.
Tommy McDaniel
