Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:00:10 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Klaus-Juergen Wolf <kjwolf@online.de>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with /usr/share/misc/magic Message-ID: <19990510120010.C12959@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199905100036.CAA03736@solling.seismic.de>; from Klaus-Juergen Wolf on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:36:09AM %2B0200 References: <199905100036.CAA03736@solling.seismic.de>
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On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:36:09AM +0200, Klaus-Juergen Wolf wrote: > Hi! > > As I've seen, an entry in /usr/src/usr.bin/file/Magdir/ms-dos overrides > the entries /usr/src/usr.bin/file/Magdir/wordperfect. (FreeBSD-STABLE) > > I think, the WordPerfect entry in ms-dos should be removed. why ? more importantly, what or how, those of us who use the msdos version of wordperfect are going to be effected by this proposed change. as my old english literature professor once said (he was commenting on the differences between wordperfect v4 and a then new apple mac word processing toy) "if you want to do wordprocssing, use a word procesor. if you want to play games and fiddle with gadgets use one of those new fangled apple toys" well its been some 25 years but its close to what he said and it seems to me to be as true now as it was back then. if you can explain to me why you think this is important and that it won't effect my usage of wordperfect msdos v5.0 then id say ok .. but remember, please, that not every body is fawning over those (in my opinion dangeriously useless) graphical user interfaces. regards jonathan not a ludite, i just can't stand gui's for personal use reasons. -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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