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- From: August.Abolins%f115.n514.z17@visavis.cam.org (August Abolins)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Offline Readers
- Message-ID: <727807473.AA00443@visavis.cam.org>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 15:38:02 GMT
- Sender: UUCP@visavis.cam.org
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- <> On 01-21-93, at approximately 8:16am,
- <> Russell Schulz was discombobulated,
- <> and said... (to All)
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- RS>From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
- RS><930121.091617.3P3.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
-
- RS>I think (and others have said it as well) that a dirt-simple (well,
- ok, maybe to this level is impossible) waffle-installer-thingie would
- help the users who _can_ install a QWK reader, and would _like_ to have
- full Usenet non-munging capabilities, but don't feel like installing
- waffle.
-
- RS>and yes, this in itself would only help the ms-dog users. and only
- those who have the noggin-filler. but, we should be able to get the
- AMOUNT of noggin-filler required lower and lower... but not too low. :-)
-
- Do you Unix-folk have to resort to using terms like ms-dog, messy-dos,
- and attacking DOS at every occassion (even if it doesn't pertain to the
- topics you are replying to?)
-
- For those of you who have *nix running on *86 family of computers, why
- not respect the forces that brought you those inexpensive computing
- machines to your homes? Of course you would have much prefered to have
- expensive VAX, HP, Sun, Microvax, etc... *nix systems, RIGHT?!
-
- I am often surprised to to hear *unix people respect and uphold the
- virtues of Vi even though it is over 25years old and outdated compared
- to modern editors for *nix. Why not atleast acknowledge that DOS does
- a good job for a significant portion of the PC user market.
-
- * DeLuxe2 1.25 #10137 * --------------------[ abolins@visavis.cam.org ]---
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- * Origin: VIS-a-VIS Communications [Ont+Que] (17:514/115.0)
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