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- From: harv@shell.portal.com (Harv Laser)
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- Subject: Re: Opening IBrowse on own screen?
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 00:04:31 GMT
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- John S. Burger (jsburger@xmission.com) wrote:
-
- : On or about 03-Apr-96 13:31:56 wjustice typed the following words about "Re:
- : Opening IBrowse on own screen?". My reply is thus...
-
- : Hi wjustice,
-
-
- : w> Hi Harv,
-
- : w> Given your reputation and credibility as an Amiga user, I was beside
- : w> myself when I saw your post just two days after I had emailed Dave
- : w> Haynie, complaining about the lack of printable docs...just Amiga
- : w> Guide help for his DiskSalv 3. I though that I was the only Amiga
- : w> user left in the western hemisphere who didn't think AmigaGuide was
- : w> the cat's meow.
-
- Dave Haynie is one of the few programmers I know who is also a very
- prolific writer. I don't pretend to *understand* everything Dave
- writes, but I respect him for his ability to write long fluid
- texts and a lot of them.
-
- : w> He very promptly, thoroughly and politely replied, but when I got to
- : w> the end of the message, I still felt like there was a generation
- : w> gap between us.
-
- Probably at least half a generation from me as well. I'm 46 :)
-
-
- : >>(on .guide files being harder to use than plain text docs..)
-
- : w> In my case, all I wanted was a doc//text file which I could print out
- : w> and take upstairs with me at bedtime. Given a few days (maybe weeks),
-
- Some may laff heartily at what I'm about to say but I do my best
- reading in the bathroom :) go ahead and laff. I'll wait.
-
- Seriously, it's the one room in the house where you find yourself
- to be your own captive audience as it were. No computers, no tv,
- no other distractions except the umm.. business to be conducted there.
- So that's where I toss long printouts, recent magazines and such.
-
- I don't do a lot of printing out 'cuz I'm mainly using my 1200
- these days, and my 2500, parnetted to it, a room away, has my
- deskjet on it, so I have to run parnet, send the text over to
- the 2500, reboot (to free up the parallel port which parnet takes
- over) then fire up the printer, and print the text.
- Either that or "sneakernet" it over on a floppy.
-
- Plus, I've got old binders and binders and some more binders full
- of docs that I printed out ages ago, carefully 3-hole-punched,
- put in binders, labelled them, and then never looked at them
- again :)
-
- The problem being that binders get just too damn heavy to
- flip through easily when you've filled them with a couple hundred
- sheets of printouts. Can't balance them on your lap when you
- compute, and so on. (I dunno about others but I have less
- than one square foot of empty real estate on both of my computing
- "desks" (which both used to be dining tables)).
-
- Then again, I've been in a lot of friends' homes who are
- long time computerists and seen similar setups. So perhaps
- it's more widespread than I imagine. Whenever I see a clean computer
- desk, I figure "hmm.. this guy isn't very serious about computing."
-
- In other words.. "Paperless office, my ass!" :)
-
- But I digress.
-
- AmigaGuide displayers should all have a "save as plain text"
- option. Like web browsers have. (Umm.. except for AWeb :(
-
- : Why not just go on Aminet and get one of the guide to text utilities, convert
- : the guide to plain text and print it out. Seems like a perfect solution to me.
-
-
- Uhh.. laziness? :)
-
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