Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Sun Apr 21 23:58:33 2002

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:41:13AM -0400, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> On 22 Apr 2002, R. D. Davis wrote:

> > How can anyone do anything useful with a computer without the
> > following? Emacs, TeX/LaTeX, dvips, the Bourne shell for scripts,
> > ghostview, gimp, xv, PostgreSQL or Oracle, Perl, C, various useful
> > UNIX utilities (e.g. tar, awk, nawk, grep, sed, dc, ed, diff, cal, at,
> > bc, od, lint, etc.), to name a very few of the extremely useful
> > programs that run on UNIX systems.
>
> You'd be surprised at the variety of work I can do on an S/390 with *none*
> of these. Just because they are useful, doesn't mean that's all there is.

I assume you use equivalent programs, but what are they? Presumably XEDIT
would be high on the list, and one of IBM's print formatters. And you
probably have a nice implementation of SQL. Is there a replacement
for gimp or xv?

-- Derek
Received on Sun Apr 21 2002 - 23:58:33 BST