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From: Sanction <david.s.thompson@****.EDU>
Subject: Re: Moot Point
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:57:10 -0500
At 10:19 PM 12/2/96 -0500, you wrote:
>In <2.2.32.19961203005755.006ba244@********.cis.yale.edu>, on 12/02/96
> 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.
>
Actually, I know exactly what he did, just not how. He ran both MS and
Linux with some kind of utility that allowed him to choose which he wanted
to use. Seems like a pretty decent idea, esp since generally MS 95 comes
with new computers so you don't have to buy it. And, I think he does it for
just that reason -- to be able to access these all-to-common non-universal
files, which he wants to be able to read.

--Sanction

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