From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff Newsgroups: net.flame Title: Re: "Usage" use. Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1303 Posted: Sat Jan 22 09:50:30 1983 Received: Mon Jan 24 05:53:57 1983 References: uwvax.730 The use of 'input', 'output', and 'format' as verbs does make sense in a computer context. English is a live language, after all, and new words, or new uses for old words, are added occasionally. I don't think that any existing words would have had the proper degree of ambiguity in their conventional uses to serve as 'input' or 'output' does. -Jeff Soreff