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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!shell2.ba.best.com!vss From: vss@shell2.ba.best.com (V.S. Senthilkumar) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: A suggestion to Linux/Bsd Developers Date: 8 Feb 1997 04:51:18 GMT Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5dh0o6$ji9$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> Reply-To: vss@best.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shell2.ba.best.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157040 comp.os.linux.networking:67734 comp.os.linux.setup:96175 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5948 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2399 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52259 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266547 From the previous thread in this newsgroup it is getting clear that, unix is lacking a "cheap real word processor". (like MS Word) I know that you guys are busy enhancing kernel and driver code. But i think that, the time spent writing a Motif free word processor is time really worth spent. (please don't give emacs+groff as a solution) Put an end to this bullshit called NT. good luck, -vs senthilkumar