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Article #1175Idiots and word processors (was Re: Microsoft Word 5.0 SUCKS!!!! sort of.)
From: Cory Kempf
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 19:16
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 > > >-- >Jolyon A. Silversmith __________________________________________________________ >silvers3@husc.harvard.edu "At the end of history lies >Summer Address: 260 New Mark the undiscovered country." >Rockville, MD 20850 ____________________________________________________________ > ------------------------------------------------------------- Cory Kempf EnigamI, Inc. cory@enigami.mv.com ...!decvax!enigami!cory Annon: wi.5036@wizvax.methuen.ma.us "F' cryin' out loud, it's *your* life; shouldn't you at least examine your lifestyle values to see if they are really what *you* want." --Keith Lim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!ryn.mro4.dec.com!rdg.dec.com!decvax.dec.com!enigami.mv.com!enigami.mv.com!cory From: cory@enigami.mv.com (Cory Kempf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Idiots and word processors (was Re: Microsoft Word 5.0 SUCKS!!!! sort of.) Date: Sat, 8 Aug 92 14:16:41 EST Organization: EnigamI, Inc., Nashua, NH Message-ID: <0105011F.aj1u88@dragon.enigami.mv.com> Reply-To: cory@enigami.mv.com Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.misc X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v5 Lines: 46