Cris wrote:
> Cris wrote:
>> Can dmd now be installed in a non-rood directory?
>>
>> d:\Program Files\some dir\more dirs\The D Programming Language\dmd 0.111
> 
> rood? what's that? :)

An ancient unit of area.
1 rood = 1011.7141056 m².
I know that Americans prefer to use archaic units, rather than SI, but I've never encountered this one before. <g>
I presume he means a modern directory.

In article <e66q13$1cko$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Don Clugston says...
>
>Cris wrote:
>> Cris wrote:
>>> Can dmd now be installed in a non-rood directory?
>>>
>>> d:\Program Files\some dir\more dirs\The D Programming Language\dmd 0.111
>> 
>> rood? what's that? :)
>
>An ancient unit of area.
>1 rood = 1011.7141056 m².
>I know that Americans prefer to use archaic units*, rather than SI, but
>I've never encountered this one before. <g>
>I presume he means a modern directory.

Oh, that explains it!  And here I was thinking that the OP found spaces inside of directories offensive.  I know I do!

* - Sadly, us Yanks tend to perfer archaic units, but its really a chicken-and-egg problem.  See, we're just so used to calculating our cars' fuel efficency in bushels per ferlong that it makes its way into the classroom at the cost of spending time on the 'useless' SI - and 'round we go.  As a result, any discussion on 'modern' units of measure usually draw blank stares, discussions about VW Beeltes per Library of Congress and the occasional thesis on Starbucks Ventes per Man-Week.  Don't even get me started on cookbooks, electronics, engineering texts, doing the laundry, or why NASA uses metric only half the time; things are really screwed up around here. <g>

- EricAnderton at yahoo

pragma wrote:
> * - Sadly, us Yanks tend to perfer archaic units, but its really a
> chicken-and-egg problem.  See, we're just so used to calculating our cars' fuel
> efficency in bushels per ferlong that it makes its way into the classroom at the
> cost of spending time on the 'useless' SI - and 'round we go.  As a result, any
> discussion on 'modern' units of measure usually draw blank stares, discussions
> about VW Beeltes per Library of Congress and the occasional thesis on Starbucks
> Ventes per Man-Week.  Don't even get me started on cookbooks, electronics,
> engineering texts, doing the laundry, or why NASA uses metric only half the
> time; things are really screwed up around here. <g> 
> 
> - EricAnderton at yahoo

Another dead horse that needs dismounting :P

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