Fwd: Reducing disk usage?

[Lance Hegamin]

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:30:00 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

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>On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:23:31 -0800, Lance Hegamin wrote:
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>>Huh?  W(im)P?  If it is as arrogant as the DOS version, no thanks.
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>    As opposed to what, Word, where they don't let you see the control codes?

The control codes are the very arrogance of which I speak!

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>>Could be, but that doesn't help if my office uses Windoze, and I have
>>to be compatible!
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>    Funny, all of those are compatible.

Completely?  Or only partially?  Without conversion?  Without having to
remember to save in a special format?

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>>There is not enough time in the world, AFAIAC, to learn all these
>>different programs.  If it ain't broke, don't fix it!  I'd rather spend
>>my time doing something useful as opposed to learning new programs to
>>replace something I already has that works!
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>    Presumption: That it works now.  My Linux box is on 27 days up straight
>doing more work for my entire network as well as applications I mentioned
>than any Win box you're likely to see.  Tell me, how many reboots have you
>had this week on your Win box?

None that I can recall.  And lately, I've had more reboots with one of
my OS/2 boxes than I've had with 'doze.

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>    Now, plese, define "works".

Applications I can use and not have to relearn keystrokes for each
different site at which I may have an assignment.  Applications I can
be productive in.  The application should SUPPORT the assignment, not
be an ends of its own.


L G Hegamin
(LHegamin@mediaone.net)