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Article #1409Re: Microsoft and obsolescence
From: Toon Moene
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
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David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote: > I suggest you look "default" up in a dictionary. This does not change > the default save format, but saves a single file with a different > format. Be careful of what you're asking for - you might get it: Webster's Ninth Collegiate: 1de�fault \di-'fo�lt\ n [ME defaute, defaulte, fr. OF defaute, fr. (assumed) VL defallita, fr. fem. of defallitus, pp. of defallere to be lacking, fail, fr. L de- + fallere to deceive � more at FAIL] (13c) 1: failure to do something required by duty or law: NEGLECT 2 archaic: FAULT 3: a failure to pay financial debts 4a: failure to appear at the required time in a legal proceeding b: failure to compete in or to finish an appointed contest � in default of: in the absence of Note: It's a noun, not an adjective, as "the default save format" seems to imply: That's a neologism from the computer era. -- Toon Moene (mailto:toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286 g77 Support: mailto:fortran@gnu.org; egcs: mailto:egcs-bugs@cygnus.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Subject: Re: Microsoft and obsolescence Date: 1998/10/05 Message-ID: <6vbi51$mqr$1@newnews.nl.uu.net> X-Deja-AN: 398073784 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980927140803.10597B-100000@howard> <m3n27lf4ba.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980928140832.24247A-100000@howard> <6uqc2e$qck$1@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980929174327.11647A-100000@welpc040.domgen.com> <907103252snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <OtvFDIAmbgE2Ewio@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <ys4stod03w.fsf_-_@tulyar.sdd.cegelecproj.co.uk> <u0n5v6.ci4.ln@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> <36180de3.4893859@news.demon.co.uk> <MKFG2oHpvKKP092yn@skypoint.com> <36187DBF.BC2BE1D5@pacific.net.sg> <m2emsnp8lc.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss