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- From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Message-ID: <By6oGI.6su@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:21:54 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.051435.5763@cs.hope.edu> <1992Nov16.135133.445@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <92325.182026ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> <1eqmsaINNb3l@uwm.edu>
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- Reply-To: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Organization: Do they make a washing powder called Caliban Automatic?
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- Quoting rick@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) in article <1eqmsaINNb3l@uwm.edu>:
- ><ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> (Michael Somethingorother) writes:
- [>Why can't we use Doc as a word processor]
- [because it needs X and we need a text editor before X is running.]
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- But he didn't ask about text editors, he asked about word processors.
- We need a thing like a word processor; there's no way we're asking
- ordinary users to use TeX. In fact, what we really need is a WYSIWYG
- DTP system in freeware. Well, I can dream, can't I?
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