On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:31:03AM -0800, paul beard wrote:

> Windows apps, like it or not, offer lots of functionality that is 
> lost in a pure ASCII world, and the open source alternatives have 
> yet to catch up. Unlikely they ever will . . . . .

How much of that "functionality" is truly useful though?

Typical of what I see people do is waste perhaps hours changing their
fonts and colors on a memo I could type and print in minutes, if not
seconds.

Nothing wrong with some enhancements, but most of these "features"
have little to do with actually producing and using words and numbers.

I have worked in Microsoft-only offics and *still* had massive
troubles with document interchange, using nothing but Office.
Their own products aren't compatible with themselves sometimes.

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