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From: Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: AFT -- Almost free text.
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:18:55 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201111216220.7539-100000@dave.private.mielke.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201111639.g0BGdpg79022@dc.cis.okstate.edu>

[quoted lines by Martin G. McCormick on January 11, 2002, at 10:39]

>	I send and receive ASCII files all the time and people
>use them, but just as we would rather get sound files we can
>play and text files we can read without doubling the cost of our
>work stations or going to a lot of various other forms of hassle,
>the general user community wants stuff they can use without a lot
>of trouble.

But a Word user can already use a plain text file, so I'm still trying to
understand what's so great about a tool which converts a plain text file, which
already is Word-usable, into another format. Nothing is gained, which makes the
tool entirely useless.

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Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario   | Word of God. Please contact me
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Martin G. McCormick
 ` Dave Mielke [this message]
   ` Charles McCathieNevile
     ` Dave Mielke
       ` Ron Marriage
         ` Dave Mielke
       ` Charles McCathieNevile
 ` Luke Davis
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 Ian Blackburn
 ` Luke Davis
 Gil Andre
 ` Dave Mielke
   ` Gil Andre
     ` Dave Mielke
       ` Gil Andre
         ` Dave Mielke
           ` Charles McCathieNevile
             ` Dave Mielke
       ` Luke Davis
 ` ddunfee

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