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- From: rick@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 13:38:18 GMT
- Organization: Just me.
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- References: <1992Nov16.051435.5763@cs.hope.edu> <1992Nov16.135133.445@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <92325.182026ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
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- <ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> (Michael Somethingorother) writes:
- > Hello all. I would just like to jump into this thread to say that I agree
- >completely that we need a good word processor. Once we have this, Linux will
- >be a practical system for a variety of people.
- > I have a suggestion. Why don't we use doc. Doc is a WYSIWYG document
- >editor. It comes as part of InterViews. I have been trying to fix some bugs
- >in it for quite a while, but an older version is available at tsx-11 and
- >sunsite.
-
- Why don't we use Doc? *BECAUSE* it's part of Interviews! Not everyone will
- have the ability to install X Windows on their machine(s). You've also given
- another good reason... it's still buggy under Linux.
-
- Something more simple, which would be available for use even before they've
- done any configuration, is necessary... else what editor will they use to
- *do* the configuration?!? Note that I say "editor". Any full-blown "word
- processor" is going to require configuration of some sort. I would suggest
- though that JOE 1.0.5 is a fairly decent editor that's not too baffling for
- Joe D. User to figure out.
-
- Personally, I like "vi"... but I've been using it for (ugh) over six years.
- But Joe D. User downloaded Linux so that he'd have an operating system,
- not so he could spend a week learning "vi" from scavenged documentation.
-
- Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
- Occupation: Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and Linux fan
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