Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:38:23 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Micke Josefsson" <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: <matthew@starbreaker.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: As usual, I disagree. Message-ID: <026801c178c1$f9761050$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <XFMail.20011129100823.mj@isy.liu.se>
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Micke writes: > root! I was talking about human beings, not user IDs. > But much of the work done in any job is word > processing, and the tools exist for that also > in the Unix domain. Most jobs involve applications other than word processing. Only secretaries do primarily word processing, and even they have other applications they must use. > But the GUI is marvellous. You can even copy > between several directories simultaneously and > start other apps at the same time. Windows more > or less locks up during a single copy-ing. Does it? I do exactly this all the time. No lockups thus far. > My users are university students. University students are in a class by themselves. Now I understand how you can get away with dual-boot machines. > Still it keeps coming. Microsoft Word is very widely used. > BTW, I have grown a liking towards RTF since > when I discovered how easy it was to edit the > raw data. RTF pales in comparison with PostScript. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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