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- From: skipb@cwis.unomaha.edu (Skip Burrell)
- Subject: Re: Let's send in a letter (updates list-of-names)
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <Dec.28.12.47.51.1992.13131@dropout.rutgers.edu> <C04ADx.59w@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <1hukicINNe52@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Dec31.201620.24565@netcom.com> <1993Jan1.181306.24147@eskimo.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:31:22 GMT
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- lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel) writes:
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- >>> careful with the mac cuts there, bird ;) okay, i liked it... nevermind ;)
-
- >>Well, I'm a die-hard DOS-lover, so I laughed myself silly at the Mac cuts.
- >>What's with Tom Servo, though? Everybody knows the difference between a
- >>backslash and forward slash! And besides, only weenies use WordPerfect
- >>anymore. The real pros now are using **DESKTOP PUBLISHING*** programs.
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- > I dunno - I use Messy-DOS, Apple, and UNIX systems almost daily... and
- >_I_ certainly get confused... if somebody is used to using just one
- >system, looking for those silly back-slashes is NOT natural (since Messy-DOS
- >is the only system _I_ know of that uses them with any regularity)
-
- I also use all three types of systems, The backslash isn't that big a deal
- since I do alot of C and shell programming where the backslash is used as
- an escape character. But I also think that MeSsy-DOS is a dinasaur that has
- outlived its purpose. The Mac was a great innovation but is beginning to
- show its age. Apple needs System 8 right now, Windows needs to be freed from
- DOS, and Unix/X-Windows is way cool!! ;-)
-
- >and,in a true effort to start a non-topic related flame war: what anybody
- >sees in a hacked up, bastardized, CRIPPLED UNIX is beyond me.. (yeah - that's
- >Messy-DOS). I'd MUCH rather use the real thing - in any flavor!
-
- Me too. In fact, my 386 DOS machine will soon be a *nix box, and hopefully
- MeSsy-DOS will be just a memory!
- --
- Skip Burrell Internet: skipb@unomaha.edu
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- My Disclaimer: Any opinion I may have stated was purely unintentional!
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