From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 2:38:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC4437B416 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 02:38:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fATAcNx02921; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:38:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <026801c178c1$f9761050$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Micke Josefsson" Cc: , References: Subject: Re: As usual, I disagree. Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:38:23 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Micke writes: > root! I was talking about human beings, not user IDs. > But much of the work done in any job is word > processing, and the tools exist for that also > in the Unix domain. Most jobs involve applications other than word processing. Only secretaries do primarily word processing, and even they have other applications they must use. > But the GUI is marvellous. You can even copy > between several directories simultaneously and > start other apps at the same time. Windows more > or less locks up during a single copy-ing. Does it? I do exactly this all the time. No lockups thus far. > My users are university students. University students are in a class by themselves. Now I understand how you can get away with dual-boot machines. > Still it keeps coming. Microsoft Word is very widely used. > BTW, I have grown a liking towards RTF since > when I discovered how easy it was to edit the > raw data. RTF pales in comparison with PostScript. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message