Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:39:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Ken Keeler <kkeysler@nwlink.com> Subject: Re: Smaller, Dedicated tools and Greg's Daemon News Article Message-ID: <19981214183905.F17075@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812132318160.6577-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>; from Jason C. Wells on Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 11:29:40PM -0800 References: <19981214083023.C2587@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812132318160.6577-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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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
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