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- From: chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess)
- Subject: re: "Hack", and RTF
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- Message-ID: <199301080001.chess@bedivere.watson.ibm.com>
- Approved: Right-thinking people everywhere
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:30:44 GMT
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- >In many English speaking countries, the term "hack" is commonly used
- >to describe newspaper reporters. I thought this was used in the US as
- >well....
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- Definitely! But I don't think that's the intent in this case. The
- connotation here seems to be something like "cocaine user" or "criminal"
- or perhaps just "jerk/fool/creep". It's certainly not "hack" as used
- in this newsgroup, for instance, nor does it seem to be "reporter"
- or "unskilled writer" or "taxi (driver)" or "cigarette smoker" or
- "short cough". Maybe it just happened to fit nicely in the lyric... *8)
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- Thanks to everyone who suggested places to get an RTF spec, by the
- way! I found one adequate for me at export.lcs.mit.edu, file
- contrib/XcRichText-1.5.tar.Z(Rich_Text_Format_Spec).
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