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From: grep@oriole.sbay.org (George Bonser)
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
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I think that is why WordPerfect for Linux is pretty much exactly like
WordPerfect for DOS or any other platform.
In article <y5alo6v5zxn.fsf@graphics.cat.nyu.edu>,
fox@c a t . n y u . e d u (David Fox) writes:
> Complaining about ignorant users is the lamest sort of denial of the
> failure of software designers to produce usable systems. There is no
> important task for a user of word processing software to do except to
> process words. For it to require anything else of them is a failure
> of the program's designer.
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I am giving .sigs a break this month
George Bonser
grep@oriole.sbay.org, grep@cris.com