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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: "S. F. Thomas" <sthomas@decan.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:27:08 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3329C2AC.2BBA2273@decan.com> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5ddcvf$4dh@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> <330a1d23.2419719@172.15.0.208> <5ef5c8$rgs@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <5f6fhq$el0@faculty.ed.umuc.edu> <5fsihd$oa7@bignews.shef.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.161.73.239 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.11 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:164650 comp.os.linux.networking:72071 comp.os.linux.setup:102703 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6337 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2810 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:57010 comp.os.os2.advocacy:275031 Earl H. Kinmonth wrote: > Since when are Windows programmes blindingly easy to use? > > For me, use vi with [nt]roff and doing something like > > .IP tag number I'm another "old-timer" who never made the switch. I still use vi with groff to produce documents, and dread those times when I have to use WordPerfect, for example, to harmonize with colleagues. I thought I was a hold-out. I'm discovering there're a lot of people besides myself who'd rather fight than switch. > > Earl H. Kinmonth, Kanji Users Service Operation (KUSO!), > University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England S10 2UJ S. F. Thomas