Re: Word 4.0 and Excel 1.5

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From: Cory Kempf
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 18:12

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In article <41515@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
>							  Does anyone
>know what flag or setting Excel has that tells the system to give it
>this special treatment?)

It isn't anything of microsoft's doing... Apple broke their own OS
so that Excel was special cased and would continue to function...

all because one company can't seem to read/follow instructions.

Disgusting, isn't it?  I hope that eventually, enough people use
something other than Excel so that things like this stop happening.

+C

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