Re: What do we REALLY want?

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From: Jim R Oldroyd
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1985 20:24

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In article <960@erix.UUCP> mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) writes:
>It all depend on for what we want to use UNIX. I use UNIX as a collection of
>programming tools. However if I wanted to use UNIX for word processing, I
>might buy a good word processing package.

This is EXACTLY the point I was making.  Mike goes on to say that
it is up to each piece of software to interprate the internal codes
in whatever way it suits best.

But what happens if one wishes to use the same input files for
different applications?

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From: jr@inset.UUCP (Jim R Oldroyd)
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Subject: Re: What do we REALLY want?
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