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Date:      Thu, 9 May 1996 08:46:14 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens)
Cc:        chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject:   Re: word processor
Message-ID:  <199605082316.IAA00234@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.FBS.3.93.960508102444.5576B-100000@dingo.enc.edu> from "Charles Owens" at May 8, 96 10:37:00 am

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Charles Owens stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > Lyrix == noname.  He renamed it.  Get the noname README from 
> > wcarchive.cdrom.com, /pub/FreeBSD/incoming.
> 
> I know that the URL in my message ends with LyriX.html, but the document
> itself is about the product "LyX".  Its written by Matthias Ettrich, with
> contributions from others.  These developers are coming out with new
> releases all of the time (ftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/lyx/devel/), with the
> latest carrying versions number like 0.9.x .  I'm running 0.8.6 which is
> supposedly the current "stable" release.
> 
> The impression that I get is that this is not the same thing as the
> LyriX to which you refer.

*sigh*.  The product was originally called "Lyrix", however SCO already 
have a (pathetic) wordprocessor called "lyrix", so the product 
temporarily became "noname", and now it's called "LyX".

You're all talking about the same thing.

>   Charles Owens                                  Email:  owensc@enc.edu

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