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- From: hshubs@cis.umassd.edu (Howard S Shubs)
- Subject: Re: Hey how about a new group for UTILITIES ???????
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- References: <wondertr.727642482@sfu.ca> <C19E6u.Bw9@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1993Jan23.093923.1@tesla.njit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:11:21 GMT
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- In <1993Jan23.093923.1@tesla.njit.edu> erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
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- >In article <C19E6u.Bw9@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes) writes:
- >> wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center) writes:
- >>
- [silly idea deleted]
- >>
- >> Is there something new in the water, or what? Everytime I turn
- >> around someone is proposing a new newsgroup. While the addition of a
- >> newsgroup to talk about utilities would be helpful, I really don't see
- >> an efficient way to word a charter to distinguish it from c.s.m.apps.
- >> Isn't Microsoft Word a utility?
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- > The key difference is that Word is something you buy your Macintosh to run,
- >a utility is something you buy to make your Macintosh run better. Word is a
- >production application. MacTools or ATM are just things that help Word run
- >better. It's the difference between going to the grocery store in your
- >car and going to the gas station. If you didn't own a car you'd still go to
- >the grocery store, just not as easily as with the car. If you didn't have Word
- >you'd still write, just not as easily. Only the first kind of utility (i.e
- >Word) belongs in comp.sys.mac.apps. The second kind belongs in
- >comp.sys.mac.misc. This will be made more explicit in the next version of the
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- So, what is something like DiskFit Pro? How 'bout CatMac? Or a program
- that sets the clock based on a time server?
- --
- Howard S Shubs hshubs@bix.com For to win 100 victories in 100
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