From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 14 00:10:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21165 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 00:10:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21155 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 00:10:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA23790; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:39:31 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA91521; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:39:06 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981214183905.F17075@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:39:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jason C. Wells" , FreeBSD-chat Cc: Ken Keeler Subject: Re: Smaller, Dedicated tools and Greg's Daemon News Article References: <19981214083023.C2587@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jason C. Wells on Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 11:29:40PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 13 December 1998 at 23:29:40 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I spent the entire weekend doing battle with Microsoft products. We > produced a 400 page report using the bastard Word 97. Easily 20 full man > hours were spent trying to figure why there were big red X's where > pictures used to be and recovering files that were corrupted during > crashes. We could not put together more than 20MB/200 pages of text before > complete instability occured. > > What a horrible waste of time. > > Oh yeah, don't forget that little paper clip sucker in the right corner. > Good thing I didn't have my gun. I'da shot the futhermocker right in his > litte winky eye. > > Imagine trying to put together "The Complete FreeBSD" in this environment. > > The point is, I know how well small dedicated tools work. I haven't > learned the text editing tools because I was never motivated to do so. > > A recent email chat combined with Greg's article have completely convinced > me that I should learn a little bit more programming in order to make my > life easier. > > Emacs, Tex, Don't go overboard. Emacs, OK, but TeX might help you find positive things about Microsoft Wart. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message