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Re: when metaphor becomes reality

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From: George W. Leach
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 19:48
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In article <3404@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh) writes:

>Try cut-and-paste from a piece of paper to the screen and see how silly you
>feel when it still won't work after a couple of attempts!

    Ah, but I have seen people put a piece of paper on the screen with an
outline drawing on it.  Then they proceed to trace the outline on the
screen with the mouse, thus generating a digitized version.




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