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Idiots and word processors (was Re: Microsoft Word 5.0 SUCKS!!!! sort of.)

#1175
From: Cory Kempf
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 19:16
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In article <1992Aug3.174419.14403@husc3.harvard.edu> (comp.sys.mac.apps), silvers3@husc10.harvard.edu (Jolyon Silversmith) writes:
>In article <BsFC7o.6Ms@news.cso.uiuc.edu> aad35939@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A A DeGuzman
>) writes:
>>wardw@CS.ColoState.EDU (william bradley ward) writes:
>>
>>[stuff deleted about how much CPU time Word 5.0 takes, etc.]

>>Why use Word 5.0 if you don't like it? If you don't like the way Microsoft
>>programmers write their code, buy a different product. No one is forcing you
>>to use Word.

>It's been said before - I'll say it again. Not everyone has a choice. In the
>business world, or even on college campuses, it may be next to impossible
>to shirk the standard. If you only use your own Mac and never share, fine. But
>Nisus isn't exactly common (or MacWrite II or Taste or whatever) if you do 
>otherwise.

Nisus and MacWrite II both support XTND.  Most products can read and
write Word format files.  What is the problem?  

To put it another way, you have a Mac.  You use a word processor.
 You accept as input Word files, and you output word files.

Without examining the hard disk, what word processor is being used?

+C


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>
>-- 
>Jolyon A. Silversmith __________________________________________________________
>silvers3@husc.harvard.edu                            "At the end of history lies
>Summer Address: 260 New Mark                          the undiscovered country."
>Rockville, MD 20850 ____________________________________________________________
>


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Cory Kempf                    EnigamI, Inc.
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From: cory@enigami.mv.com (Cory Kempf)
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Subject: Idiots and word processors (was Re: Microsoft Word 5.0 SUCKS!!!! sort of.)
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 92 14:16:41 EST
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