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Article #84Re: OT: Cross Border Shopping, Deals and not so good deals.
From: sharx35
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:04
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:04
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Richard Bonner wrote: > Greg Carr (gregpcarr@yahoo.ca) wrote: >> Forte Agent is way better than OE which I use. Tin is great if you >> are against GUI. > >> http://www.tin.org/ > > *** Which I am. I can't handle the tedium of those endless menus and > stupid little kindergarten pictures I have to search for and click. > )-: > > The power is at the command line! > > Richard You'd turn back the clock and insist that everyone became a techie to participate in the Computer Revolution. I used to operate an IBM 360/25, so I know all about the total TEDIUM of command lines. BORING BORING TEDIOUS TEDIOUS. My job would I been a LOT easier with menus, icons, etc., as opposed to have to construct command lines with EXACTLY the right number of spaces, slashes, hyphens, codes, etc.. PAIN IN THE ASS, it was.
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