You might be a VMS Bigot if.....

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Tue Oct 3 18:26:11 2000

Ah, part of the joke is the people that would be most mystified by
VMS is the Winders crowd. Most of them have forgotten what
C:> means or never have seen it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Kolb <dankolb_at_ox.compsoc.net>


>> You keep trying to use the EDT keypad in Word.
>
>Oh, please. Word? Surely it should be vi, emacs or Wordstar. :)


See win9x... They meant Word as anyone ued to other real word processors
would be clued and maybe even like LSE or TPU.


>Hmm...one page...that would be, say, 80x25 for a screen, or about 80x65
for
>an A4 page. So that's max. 5k. Why *does* it need half a meg. anyway?
Word
>attachment?


HTML, RTF MIME, anything but plain ascii.

>> You think that a command line interface is better than a GUI
>
>It is, though, isn't it? The only advantage I can (OTTOMH) think of is
that a
>web browser in a GUI displays pictures :-)


So can ghostscript from a command line.

>"apropos <keyword>"?


VMS Help {type, dir, del, set, show, ... or maybe even ?}

>> You really can't think of anything Bill Gates actually invented
>
>Did he invent anything?


Still cant, never did, likely cant.

Allison
Received on Tue Oct 03 2000 - 18:26:11 BST

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