| From: | jhm@*****.COM |
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| Subject: | Re: Moot Point |
| Date: | Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:19:37 -0500 |
at 07:57 PM, Sanction <david.s.thompson@****.EDU> said:
>Um, how can an OS be so useful and so much superior if it doesn't support
>the file structures of the OS's used my the majority of computer users on
>the planet. Seems to me, if you want to be "master of your computer",
>that is fine, but try not to lose touch with what us normal people use on
>a day-to-day basis. And, certainly don't complain if you can't work with
>a file format you've gone out of your way to avoid. One of my CS friends
>manages to have both Linux and MS 95 on his comp (don't ask ME how), so I
>can give him any file I can handle, and he can still perform his god-like
>machinations with Linux.
You apparently missed how your friend manages it... He runs another OS.
All of us can do that but it is not worth it for a single file! It would
be more considerate if the files in question were released in a
'universal' format like Postscript or even Adobe Acrobat. RTF contrary to
what MS claims is not universal.
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