Re: Software lock-in, NeXT get a life!

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From: Lucas Wagner
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:14

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In a previous article, eronald@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Edmund Ronald) says:

> I write. I write for a living. I write on my cube, when I can. Then I have
> to hand the copy in to an editor.   Said (human :) editor sits in front 
> of a PC. My text is usually in French, contains all these nice accents
> which the french seem to need like salt and pepper.
>
>  There is a DOS Ascii character set, and a Windows character set. 
>
>  HOW THE HELL IS ONE SUPPOSED TO MOVE TEXT TO EITHER? 
>  AM I THE ONLY MAN IN THE WORLD WHO GETS ANGRY ABOUT THIS?
>  OH, YES, I KNOW ABOUT RTF. ON THE NEXT RTF MEANS NEXT_RTF :(
>
>  ARGH.
>
> Edmund (who also happens to be a NeXT developper, but can't be bothered)
>

Isn't there a text conversion utility on the market yet which
will do this?  This does present a problem.  Is there any sort of
utility out there which will perform flawless NeXT translations
from PC, Mac, etc.?  Recommendations, anyone?          

Lucas 
(who doesn't have his NeXTWorld with him)


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Subject: Re: Software lock-in, NeXT get a life!
Date: 30 Dec 1992 23:14:33 GMT
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