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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Subject: Re: Good idea (was Re: The sin of MicroSoft)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.212329.4384@sequent.com>
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- Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan10.011419.23343@microsoft.com> <726730251snx@w3vh.UUCP> <1993Jan11.091342.24701@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 21:23:29 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.091342.24701@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sorourke@lonestar.utsa.edu (Sean J. Orourke) writes:
- >In article <726730251snx@w3vh.UUCP> rolfe@ldp.com (Rolfe Tessem) writes:
- >>petesk@microsoft.com writes in article <1993Jan10.011419.23343@microsoft.com>:
- >[tons of stuff that belongs in alt.spelling.flames and the grammar equivalent
- > deleted]
- >> ^^^be^^^^ ^^ahead^^^^
- >>> what it was now.
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^where it is now.
- >>
- >>> petesk@microsoft.com
- >>> My Opinions...
- >>
- >>Perhaps there is a market for a Microsoft spelling and grammar checker
- >>(running under OS/2 of course.)
- >>
- >
- >Actually, what I always thought would be a good idea for OS/2 (or even, yuck,
- >Windows) is a clipboard spelling/grammar checker. That way no matter what you
- >were running you could bring text into the clipboard and check it.
- >
- >
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- Is PETE.EXE available under OS/2 yet ? :):)
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