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- From: ak520@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Lucas Wagner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Software lock-in, NeXT get a life!
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 23:14:33 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <eronald.724544541@ruble>
- Reply-To: ak520@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Lucas Wagner)
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-
- In a previous article, eronald@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Edmund Ronald) says:
-
- > I write. I write for a living. I write on my cube, when I can. Then I have
- > to hand the copy in to an editor. Said (human :) editor sits in front
- > of a PC. My text is usually in French, contains all these nice accents
- > which the french seem to need like salt and pepper.
- >
- > There is a DOS Ascii character set, and a Windows character set.
- >
- > HOW THE HELL IS ONE SUPPOSED TO MOVE TEXT TO EITHER?
- > AM I THE ONLY MAN IN THE WORLD WHO GETS ANGRY ABOUT THIS?
- > OH, YES, I KNOW ABOUT RTF. ON THE NEXT RTF MEANS NEXT_RTF :(
- >
- > ARGH.
- >
- > Edmund (who also happens to be a NeXT developper, but can't be bothered)
- >
-
- Isn't there a text conversion utility on the market yet which
- will do this? This does present a problem. Is there any sort of
- utility out there which will perform flawless NeXT translations
- from PC, Mac, etc.? Recommendations, anyone?
-
- Lucas
- (who doesn't have his NeXTWorld with him)
-
-
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